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a few feet below the surface of the earth. On the outer side were the traces of an old ditch & rampart, thrown up on the inside. Some small mounds were also within the enclosure. At the plantation of Mr Wm Sheppard, in the county of Giles, seven & a half miles north of Pulaski, on the east side of the creek, is a cave with several rooms. The first 15 feet wide, & 27 long; 4 feet deep; the upper part of solid & even rock. Into this cave was a passage, which had been so artfully covered, that it escaped detection till lately. A flat stone, three feet wide, & four feet long, rested upon the ground, and inclining against the cave, closed part of the mouth. At the end of this, and on the side of the mouth left open, is another stone rolled, which filling this also, closed the whole mouth. When these rocks were removed, and the cave opened, on the inside of the cave were found several bones - the jaw bone of a child, the arm bone of a man, the skulls & thigh bones of men. The whole bottom of the cave was covered with flat stones of a bluish hue, being closely joined together, and of different forms & sizes. They formed the floor of the cave. Upon the floor the bones were laid. The hat of Mr Egbert Sheppard, seven inches wide and eight inches long, but just covered and slipped over one of the skulls. At the mouth of the Obed's river, on the point between it & the Cumberland river, which is high ground, certain persons in digging, struck a little below the surface, four stones standing upright, and so placed in relation to each other, as to form a square or box, which enclosed