Fearing his corporal has deserted, Lewis is relieved when the soldier appears in the morning. Lewis explores ancient Indian mounds at present Moundsville, and the boats make 24 miles down the Ohio River stopping opposite present Clarington, Ohio.
Ruins of an Antique Watch Tower
Parr’s Point, Grave Creek Flats
Illustrated by S. Eastman, lithograph by C. Schuessele, printed in color by P. S. Duval.[1]Henry R. Schoolcraft, Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States, Vol. 1. (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & … Continue reading
Indian Mound
I landed on the east side of R. and went on shore to view a remarkable artificial mound of earth called by the people in this neighbourhood the Indian grave.—
—Meriwether Lewis
Large Mound
the [largest] mound stands on the most elivated ground of a large bottom containing about 4000 acres of land . . . . the mound is nearly a regular cone 310 yards in circumpherence at it’s base & 65 feet high terminating in a blont point whose diameter is 30 feet, this point is concave being depressed about five feet in the center
—Meriwether Lewis
Peale’s Specimens
I was informed that in removing the earth of a part of one of those lesser mounds that stands in the town the skeletons of two men were found and some brass beads were found among the earth near these bones, my informant told me the beads were sent to Mr. Peals museum in Philadelphia where he believed they now were.—
—Meriwether Lewis
Twenty-Four Miles
we got on twenty four miles this day. we passed some bad riffles but got over them without the assistance of cattle came too on the E. side in deep water and a bold shore staid all night a little above sunfish creek
—Meriwether Lewis
Notes
| ↑1 | Henry R. Schoolcraft, Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States, Vol. 1. (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Company, 1851), plate 40. |
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