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Rh Workshops.—In township 18, range 7 east, of Talladega County, on the headwaters of Talladega Creek, at the eastern end of Cedar Ridge, (a spur of the Rebecca Potsdam sandstone Mountain) in the old fields where the Montgomery Mining & Manufacturing Company's, Sulphur, Bluestone, Copperas, and Alum Works were situated, wagon loads of quartz fragments, broken arrow-heads, and spear-points, cover the ground; but on a much larger scale appears to have been the manufactory of these implements in township 19, range 27 east, of Lee County, on the Columbus Georgia branch of the Western Railroad east of Yongesborough; for in the fields, on the southeastern side of a low ridge called Storees Mountain, many acres are covered with the broken quartz, in every variety of that mineral found in this hill, from transparent rock crystal to jasper and chalcedony; among which occasional good implements occur.

Stone-heaps.—In township 23, range 14 east, of Chilton County, on the middle prong of Yellowleaf Creek, about 3½ miles northeast of Jemison Station, on the South and North Alabama Railroad, there are three stone heaps. The first one is about 100 yards from and on the west bank, being about 20 feet in diameter, and from 4 to 5 feet high at the center, with a post oak and pine growing on it of ancient appearance, and each of them about 8 inches in stump measurement. Two others nearly west of this, distant about 700 yards on the eastern brow of the ridge, are about 100 yards apart; one of them about 10 and the other 20 feet in diameter at the base and from 4 to 5 feet high at the center, which, though in the primitive forest, have no trees growing on them. Another, 1 mile east of these, on a more westerly ridge, in the same range and township, is about 50 feet in diameter at the base and over 5 feet high at the center. In township 21, range 3 west, on the quartzite ridge east of Siluria (about 1 mile), on the South and North Alabama Railroad, occurs a smaller stone heap than any of those before mentioned, supposed to be the grave of an Indian warrior.

 

In the course of a mineralogical trip through the region of metamorphic rocks in this state, stopping at Dudleyville, Tallapoosa County, I heard much of an ancient soapstone quarry, worked by a race of which, according to the statements of the first settlers amongst the Creeks and Muscogees, no tradition existed among these tribes. I was urgently pressed, but could not go, to visit the quarry myself, so it is due to Dr. Johnston, of Dudleyville, that I am enabled to make this contribution. The gentleman writes: "I picked up the large fragments near 