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Title: Antiquities of the southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia tribes
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Jones, Charles C. (Charles Colcock), 1831-1893
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ine-grained granite,about nine feet long, four feet six inches high, and threefeet broad at its widest point. The figures are cut inthe bowlder from one-half to three-quarters of an inchdeep. (See illustrations, p. 378.) As yet no interpretation of these figures has beenoffered, nor is it known by whom or for what purposethey were made. It is generally believed, however,that they are the work of the Cherokees. On theeastern end of the bowlder, running vertically, is a lineof dots, like drill-holes, eighteen in number, connectedby an incised line. Upon the Enchanted Mountain in Union County,cut in plutonic rock, are the tracks of men, women,children, deer, bears, bisons, turkeys and terrapins, andthe outlines of a snake, of two ,deer, and of a humanhand. These sculptures—so far as they have been as- 378 ANTIQUITIES OF THE SOUTHERN INDIANS. certained and counted—number one hundred and thir-ty-six. The most extravagant among them is thatknown as the footprint of the Great Warrior. It
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South Side of the above. measures eighteen inches in length, and has six toes.The other human tracks and those of the animals aredelineated with commendable fidelity. One track—wdiich has been indifferently described as that of ahorse and a buffalo—is seventeen inches long. Theseimpressions are artificial, and were scraped or chiselledout of the rock apparently with the aid of cutting im-plements of flint. The accuracy and skill displayedin the construction of some of them challenge admi-ration, while others are clumsily and rudely made.Most of them present the appearance of the naturaltread of the animal in plastic clay. Twenty-six ofthese sculptures represent impressions of human feet—varying in length from four to seventeen inches—all INTAGLIOS. ROCK-WRITING. 379 of them bare, save one, which was covered with a moc-casin.1 These intaglios closely resemble those described byMr. Ward as existing upon the upheaved slabs ofcoarse carboniferous grit, in Belmont County, Ohio,near

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