Archives of aboriginal knowledgeContaining all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . s in the spring, is prodigious : it sweepson its way, at this season, to unite with the Monongahela, with the majesty of a wide-spreading, resistless torrent. By its far-spread afliuents, it was the great way of com-munication of the Eries and Iroquois tribes with the west and south-west. Their warand hunting parties passed through it, and it was on its banks
Archives of aboriginal knowledgeContaining all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . s in the spring, is prodigious : it sweepson its way, at this season, to unite with the Monongahela, with the majesty of a wide-spreading, resistless torrent. By its far-spread afliuents, it was the great way of com-munication of the Eries and Iroquois tribes with the west and south-west. Their warand hunting parties passed through it, and it was on its banks that we should expectto find inscriptions of their exploits, in the pictographic character. One of the mostoften noticed of these inscriptions, exists on the left bank of this river, about six milesbelow Franklin (the ancient Venango), Pennsylvania. It is a prominent point of rocks,around which the river deflects, rendering this point a very conspicuous object, (Plate 17.)The rock, which has been lodged here in some geological convulsion, is a species of hardsandstone, about twenty-two feet in length, by fourteen in breadth. It has an inclina-tion to the horizon of about fifty degrees. During freshets, it is nearly overflown. The. « Fl 18
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