and war-captains, being a more magnificent cabin reared at the public expense.  This Quiogozon is an object of veneration, in which the writer says he has known the king, old men, and conjurers to spend several days with their idols and dead kings, and into which he could never gain admittance.

Another class of mummies are those which have been found in the saltpetre and other caves of Kentucky, and it is still a matter of doubt with archaeologists whether any special pains were taken to preserve these bodies, many believing that the impregnation of the soil with certain minerals would account for the condition in which the specimens were found.  Charles Wilkins[32] thus describes one: 

* * * An exsiccated body of a female[33] * * * was found at the depth of about 10 feet from the surface of the cave bedded in clay strongly impregnated with nitre, placed in a sitting posture, incased in broad stones standing on their edges, with a flat atone covering the whole.  It was enveloped in coarse clothes, * * * the whole wrapped in deer-skins, the hair of which was shaved off in the manner in which the Indians prepare them for market.  Enclosed in the stone coffin were the working utensils, beads, feathers, and other ornaments of dress which belonged to her.

The next description is by Dr. Samuel L. Mitchill.[34]

     AUG. 24TH, 1815.

Dear Sir:  I offer you some observations on a curious piece of American antiquity now in New York.  It is a human body:  found in one of the limestone caverns of Kentucky.  It is a perfect desiccation; all the fluids are dried up.  The skin, bones, and other firm parts are in a state of entire preservation.  I think it enough to have puzzled Bryant and all the archaeologists.

     This was found in exploring a calcareous cave in the
     neighborhood of Glasgow for saltpetre.

These recesses, though under ground, are yet dry enough to attract and retain the nitrick acid.  It combines with lime and potash; and probably the earthy matter of these excavations contains a good proportion of calcareous carbonate.  Amidst them drying and antiseptick ingredients, it may be conceived that putrefaction would be stayed, and the solids preserved from decay.  The outer envelope of the body is a deer-skin, probably dried in the usual way, and perhaps softened before its application by rubbing.  The next covering is a deer’s skin, whose hair had been cut away by a sharp instrument resembling a batter’s knife.  The remnant of the hair and the gashes in the skin nearly resemble a sheared pelt of beaver.  The next wrapper is of cloth made of twine doubled and twisted.  But the thread does not appear to have been formed by the wheel, nor the web by the loom.  The warp and filling seem to have been crossed and knotted by an operation like that of the fabricks of the northwest coast, and of the Sandwich Islands.  Such a botanist