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but the veins of the stones are very distinct. The magicians of India are provided with many articles against witchcraft, which they distribute amongst those who consult them. There are certain enchanted beads, very thin plates of copper, on which extraordinary figures are engraved, with inexplicable words, and unknown characters. Amulets also, of various kinds, all which are worn by the Hindoos to serve as talismans, & to preserve them from every species of incantation. No other circumstance at present recollected, can account in the least degree for the plates of copper above mentioned. In one of the tumuli on Grave Creek, below Wheeling, near to the Ohio, were found about twenty years since, sixty copper beads, made of a coarse wire, hammered out, and not drawn and cut off at unequal lengths. They were soldered together in an awkward manner, the centre of some of them uniting with the edges of others. They were incrusted with verdi-grease?, but the inside of them was pure copper.

Some copper pieces have been found in a mound near the Little Muskingum, four miles from Marietta, which appear to have been the front? of a helmet, was originally eight inches long & four broad, and has marks of having been attached to leather. It is much decayed and is now a thin plate, and appears to have been attached to the