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originally had. Its value by weight is about $15. It bears no device or ornamental work of any kind, being a perfectly plain heavy piece of workmanship. If it be not of European fabrication, the inference is inevitable, that some nation preceding the savages was formerly here, of far greater advancement in the arts of civilization then they ever possessed. But for fear of mistake let us bear in mind that the French settled in Canada as early as the year 1608 and soon afterwards carried on trade extensively with all the Indians who lived in the waters of the Ohio. Copper instruments and ornaments have also been found. In a mound a piece of copper incrusted with erugo half an inch thick. It consists of templates of copper rolled up, and circling each other. It was about three inches in height, and one fourth of an inch in thickness. The plates were remarkably pure unclear. In the same mound a beautiful piece of marble was taken up in the year 1814. It was undoubtedly made and used for an ornament, being perforated with loopholes for fastening, which must have been bored by some hard instrument. The marble piece is about five or six inches in length, flat on one side, oval on the other, having an increasing width in the middle, the ends are apparently cut, and with some hard implements used for the purpose. The marble is of a dark dun color,