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of water, in which state, being laid away, it had afterwards become dry & hard. When the outer stones do not exactly fit, there seems to be a small fragment of stone wedged in so as to fill the space. The mortar in some places is said to be an inch thick, where the stones do not exactly fit to one another. The wall seems to have been plastered on both sides with the same kind of mortar. He who has not seen it may think it a work of nature; but not him who has - one of whom is the writer. To look at it, and the hill above, and adjoining to it, will not fail to force the idea, of soil heaped in a diluted state, against, upon, and over the wall, without throwing it down. I would rather say, of settling against & reposing upon it, till it acquired a more solid consistence by exposure to the sun & wind. A lesser wall has since been discovered at the distance of five or six miles from this. It has been traced fifty or sixty feet. it is only seven inches thick, and all the stones reach quite across the wall. These walls are probably of the same age. In 1783, in the county of Craven, in North Carolina, at the plantation of General William Bryant, was a stream on which he had a mill. A point of land projected into the stream, against which the dam was made to abut. Into the bluff he cut twenty feet, or more, for a site for the mill house. At the