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bracelets are much corroded, and the loops destroyed; but even their present state of preservation can only be accounted for by the fortunate circumstance, that the alluvial soil of the burying ground was free from mineral acids. There are in this state some ancient ivory bracelets from Indistan?, which exactly resemble in shape those iron ones. It is a well known fact, that the dress and ornaments of the Hindoos have continued unchanged from the earliest periods of history. The aborigines had some very well manufactured swords and knives of iron and possibly of steel. (Arch. Am:) A few years ago, near Blackshoy? in Virginia, 80 miles from Marietta, was found about the half of a steel bow, which when entire would have measured five or six feet. On the main branch of Paint Creek in Ohio, near some very ancient works, and on the inside of a wall on the side of an elevated hill 300 feet high, which wall is of stone, around the brow of the hill there appears to have been a row of furnaces or Smiths' shops, where the cinders now lie many feet in depth. The remains are four or five feet in depth even now in many places. 349.

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