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Excerpt from The American Journal of Science, Vol. 3: Fourth Series, Vol; III (Whole Number, CLIII.), Nos; 13-18, January to June, 1897 Here is a small fragment of iron that has a curious history. It is a portion of a mass of meteoric iron found upon a brick altar in one of the Ohio mounds. Along with it were various objects - a serpent cut out of mica - several terracotta figu rines - two remarkable dishes carved from stone into the form of animals; pearls, shells, copper ornaments, and nearly three hundred ankle bones of deer and elk. There were but one or two fragments of other bones, and one animal furnished but two of these ankle bones; hence they must have been selected for some Special, important reason. The figurines had been apparently broken for some purpose, and the whole col lection had suffered in the tire not a little. In a like altar of another mound of the same group were found nearly two bushels of like objects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.