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Show PREHISTORIC WALL OF ROCK. Remarkable Discovery of Work Done by Unknown Race. As the cities of Pompeii and Her culanoum were (Uncovered by digging a well, so tho most prehistoric rock wall Jn tho United States wns discovered discov-ered In 1S57 by a farmer who now lives in Itockwcll, Tex., says tho Now Orleans Plcayuno. Hut whother In that portion which Is surrounded by this wall Is a Pompeii or for what pur poso It was built has never been ascertained as-certained up to tho present. Hero and thero portions of the wall aro exposed at distances of several yards. Even In Borne places it is covered cov-ered up for a mllo or two. Ono day n farmor, not knowing that tho "vail wns thoro, dug a well along the jlde of this wall 30 fcot doep. Near tho bottom of bis well ho discovered an arched opening, which wns rro by threo fcot. This opening hai beon seen by several of tho In hnbltunts of Rockwell, am it Is behoved be-hoved this must have beea used as an entrnnco Into tho wall Tho bottom bot-tom of the wall was not leached at a dopth of 30 fcot. This I as boon lbs only opening over found becauso tho wall has never been oxposcd, except last fall, when two young men o( Rockwell dug about the wall five feet In width und about tho somo In dopth. This gavo ono n good Idea of tho wall. Tho rocks wero nlcoly laid with abridged Joints In regulnr fashion, fash-ion, but tho substnnco betweon them was not mortar, but clay. A closer examination reveals no sign of any hard tool used upon tho rocks, and no doubt wooden mallets wero used to give them their sizes. On tho east sldo of tho wall tho rock Is smooth, whllo on tho west It Is rough. They nro all composed of sandstone, with streaks of mica and pebbles of Iron. It Is said that in the surrounding regions no rock can ba found similar to this, oxcept In the chimnoys nnd wolls which tho farmers farm-ers own. Tho rocks at tho opening found nro from two to six feet long, threo feet wldo nnd two feet thick. An effort wns mado to bring somo of them to tho surface by the men who dug tho well, but they found tho task too difficult. On top tho rocks nro much smaller, running about 18 Inches long, threo Inches thick and eight Inches wide. Tho farmers claim that tho wall Is nbout 1G miles long, and thoy know exactly Its course Thoro Is no doubt that this Is, tho most prehistoric wall In tho United Slates, and so far as known, tho Smithsonian Smith-sonian Institution of Washington, D. 0 has novor mado any effort to expose ex-pose tho length and width of tho wall or glvo any -explanation of Us origin. |