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ten or fifteen years ago, General Mason had from the diggers of a grave there, a discovery which they made. It is stated to have been represented by them, that about four feet before the surface, on the side of elevated ground of an acclivity of about ten degrees from the horizon, they struck a wall of stone from eight to nine feet thick. They followed it one hundred and sixty feet, and came to a corner; thence one hundred and forty feet at right angles, and came to another corner. They then pursued it no further, having found the ground that it enclosed. They dug into the interior, & three or four feet below the surface found great numbers of human bones in different apartments, both small and full grown, in regular rows, of the same stature as men of the present race. The wall was computed to be of the depth of at least nine feet, so far as they as they had gone. The cement was distinguishable, and was of a bluish cast. The stones were large, and also of a blue colour, The marks of the hammer upon the stone were also apparent. In the year 1794, was discovered in North Carolina, a subterranean wall, about twelve miles above Salisbury, in Rowan county. It was parallell to a small branch, which ran into a creek about 300 yards below the wall. It is ten or twelve yards distant from the stream, and runs into a hill on the side of the branch, and upon the upper