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Manufactures (as) Mechanic Arts.- In the spring of the year 1811, was found in a [(copperar)] cave in warren county, in [(went)] Tennessee, about 15 miles southwest from Sparta, and 20 from MeMinville, the bodies of two human beings, which had been covered by the dirt or one from which(copperar) was made. One of the persons was a male, the other a female. They were intererred in baskets, made if cane, curiously (wrought), and evidencing great mechanic sheild. they were both dislocated at the hip joint and were placed erect in the basket, with a (curve ring) made of cane, to fit the basket in which they were placed. The flesh of these persons was entire and undecayed, of a (brown) dryish colour, produced by time, the flesh having adhered closely to the bones [(definens)] . Around the female, "next" her body, was placed a well [drefed] deer skin. Next to this was placed a rug, very curiously [usereght] of the bark of tree, (as feathers). The bask seemed to have been formed of small strands, well twisted. Around each of these strands, feathers were rolled, and the whole women into a cloth of firm texture, after the [women] of our [common warse] fabrics. This rug was about three feet wide, and between six or seven feet in length. The whole of the ligaments these framed of bask, were completly coveres by the feathers, forming a body of about one eighth of [anineh] in [thiclenejs], the feathers extending about one quarter