| Show MYNE TENNESSEE MOUNDS contain evidences of giant and pygmy races relics belles ot of the ancients which set scientists to thinking the finds thought to be the remains of worshipers of 1 vishnu I 1 in n the bagi beginning nning of this century there was w as plo plowed wed up in hawkins county a tone atone Arum trumpet pet it seems to have been nade of hard soapstone boap stone and when N lien warm through makes a sound which may be heard two or three milet mile ly li is very ery smooth on the oate out sd d but bu ough fugn within this was probably pro babiy babiS used oy the giants to sto convene aset adv n blies ld id to re regulate the movements movement f glicr t army anny on days of rejoicing to make a part rt at f the musical ud with which tile the people were entertained the trumpet was not in use till about AD A D in the time of ahr trojan war neither greens greeks nor trojans had flutes ird and pipes and the greek stentor a man of mighty g voice proclaimed orders tn ti the army in the year B C when darius the mede crossed the danube danab aud ard invaded the hians he had no rum crumpet ruz apet pet when xerxes invaded recce B C no trumpet was there su the signal for tattle rattle was agven by cn Z bearers aaers soon after the invasion masion f greece Ci reece ty by the persians the trumpet as a used for many purposes the greks e ks p ro ably bably learned it from tho the the dispersed israel lt of ne ae assyrian or chaldean captivity capt rit in arted the knowledge of the trumpet nd its it vs mes to the people from whom it ii ame I 1 immediately to the american amer cac anop from it we ve make the following 1 there were bic DO ur e boilow horns 1 auld have hat e been used for the same pur OW oie o ie 3 2 if the makers of the trum t which chich no doubt were the giants giant 1 new ct w the me of metals they chev did not a c the time or material to form firm trum as they had been engaged in A X rig g and protracted ted war wita the na da rs 3 the fouad builders buil deis C d cl make this trumpet or they would ave a ve i e made it with metal hence we wear a r e at a just conception of he ae martial I 1 i busic ol of the ith korth invaders there Ther was ewas on with the giants of a race of people of small ta tati ture ire these there people were the pygmies 0 of the giants and were captured b bv them somewhere in the northeastern stern part of america and were adopted and brought as slaves by them in their southward ard wanderings in 1820 a great number of small graves and s skeletons k legons in them were discovered i in white county A mr lane submitted quite a number of these bones to the medical fraternity at yash ville and it was their opinion 1 on that the skeletons belonged to adult persons the height of this people was about two and one half to three thre i feet and they buried after the fashion of the giants with rocks set up around the body and head to the east and face to the west that this people were addicted el to strong superstitions 1 is is evident in the graves mentioned were found conch shells also mussel aad taper shells these people no doubt were worshipers of vishnu Tish nu in ancient times the worshipers of the sun f from m the confines of china and thabet migrated emigrated from sartartia Sar martia thence to germany and thence to finland and the country of the which so much resemble the Esqui maux the latex later with the greenlan ders were sun sun worshipers and brought to america with them through many ages and people the most ancient religion of asia in other places in our state and elsewhere area are found the remains ot of this diminutive race of people that such P people eople once existed is asserted by homer and herodotus they are mentioned by pliny strabo and mela as existing in india and ethiopia but jocius locates them in the extremes of the northern regions the best opinion advanced upon the subject seem to be that these people came from northeastern taxi america and were brought hither bither either willingly or by force I 1 by y the giants when they migrated to this country among the relies relics of this people was wa found in county a stone about six inches long half an dineh think and three inches wide and still w widening to the edge and having haring an eafe ed te like as an ix ax thu ax was found in an old fortification neur sparta and seemed to b 1 tinged with blood which had been petrified f ed on it the color of green was intermixed ler ter mixed with a few spots of lighter complexion it is very very hard and smooth stone axes of the same description are brought from the F fiji aiji islands in the pacing pacific by novi navigators gators tho the same species I 1 cies of stone is is found on the banks of the amazon As to what became of Ws this mysterious race we can but zt conjecture that having conic come so far south that the climate was so uncongenial genin I 1 to them together with the labor and fatigue of their long and alye aggressive gres sive warfare in connection w with th t the p giants against the aborio aborigines giner that the stra strain ir and climate was too great for their northern constitutions and they all perished and their dust mingles with ith our southern soil boil unseen by no eye but gods and whose history is ia oni only written on the scrolls of eternity st louis republic Ee public |
