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Archaeological pamphlets (1880)

leaf 307

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the form acci-dent has given it, the edges only wrought, with an inscrip-tion which required only a few minutes to make. If alpha-betical and deposited in the tomb of one of the mound builders,it indicates a knowledge of the use of letters so common thatthe art of writing was not confined to a… … *NoTE.—At the meetingof the State Society, held at Cincinnati in 1877, Dr. A. A. E.Taylor, of Wooster University, Rev. J. P. McLean, of Hamilton, O,, and the writer of thisreport, were ajipointed a special committee to report upon the evidence of the authen-tieitv of the Grave Creek Mound Inscribed…

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