Excerpt from Fort Ancient in Warren County, O Things curious to some one have been found ever since the world began. 'tis common to look for fresh dirt in cemeteries; and quick we are to decipher something about a grave, that we think leads to a knowl edge of whose remains rest there. If we have traveled a great way to reach the spot, we select something to carry away with us, to lay up as a memento that we visited the depository of the dead. These things serve as reminders of the past, and lead to history. I suppose if a mound of earth of great size was discovered to have grown up in the night While we slept, our curiosity would reach an unbounded pitch in a few minutes to see and know something more about it; and inquiry would never end in our day. Who built the mound, and for what purpose was it built? If the mound was very large and very beautiful, no one would think to mar it in the least. All would consent to let it remain for future generations to look atf. And the date of its building would certainly be kept. And the curiosity-seeker would find a guide anywhere that would direct his or her steps to the mound. We slept not while the ancients were building the mounds we find, but our civilization has awakened out of gloom a country once lying in wilderness and wild, where these mounds are discovered. And as we grew not up with their history, or anything said of them, the pitch of curiosity behooves the effort being made to ascertain who the builders Were. The finding skeletons of human bodies does not answer who they are as respects their nationality; but the finding helps us to conclude that the people who built some of the mounds were beyond a doubt the same we find in skeleton in other mounds. That is, the man that piled dirt on a brother yesterday, is the same that another brother piled dirt on to-day. And so they went on building, and so we go on finding. The curiosities we seek, we do not always find where we look for them, but often many miles away from where we think they ought to be. The name Viro has been found written in characters on stones picked up in fields and along creeks and rivers throughout the land. And the name Lamah in characters on the same kind of stone. Under the name of Lamah was the picture of a horse and rider, and the rider with a drawn sword; and under the name Viro, a picture of a man holding in the right hand a spear and ax combined. On others, a man with a bow and arrow. On some, a man and spear. On others, a man's head wearing a crown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.