Show A icelic found in a luver while edgar bates a geologist of angola was prospecting in jackson county mich he discovered in a stream a peculiarly marked stone rudely cut by a blunt instrument with the aid of a microscope he was able to decipher an inscription running to this effect samuel bernet I 1 was taken by the indians near and I 1 expect never to reach that asce if my friends I 1 am to be burned april the stone on which this was engraved was a peculiar kind of slate of which none edista in michigan and mr bates is confident that the relic is genuine and of high value philadelphia ledger |