Show written for this paper A VISIT TO OHIO SANDUSKY ohio nov eth 1893 1 I leave sandusky sand aeby on the steamer kirby for detroit michigan today to visit my old home in pontiac Poo tiac about 80 miles from detroit sixty years ago I 1 was wae baptized in that place an I 1 it is ia there where I 1 first saw the prophet joseph amita while visiting alting vi friends lit in sandusky I 1 have been very much interested ed iu ili some flome ot of the history of 0 country especially its ite early times when a prehistoric race were dwellers on the land and the islands choh abound la in the lake and now are pleasure re aorta charles N freeman has baa given much time in searching after relics iii u asje early settlement of lake brie shores hois he says bays th abit at at one one time 28 skeletons were disinterred many others not dot disturbed din dio but the 23 were examined by dr di chanes and T 1 I williams who decided the skulls to be of a race superior to the th indians some som of them were eight leet feet tal others found were 7 feet these large skeletons were not coal neu ned to the shores of lakes erie and 0 ontario but were found throughout the entire state of ohio drs stroud decided there her ewaa was no do doubt u bt that thai at some time u superior race of people people inhabited the country but mystery their history I 1 was informed by an aged gentleman that recently he be had taken a thigh bone from the ground on a farm about forty miles away trum from the hill cumorah it was computed to belong to 10 a person eight feet high only the day belore yesterday I 1 met a gentleman gent lemau leMa ou the steamer city of sandusky bandusky from a trip from put in bay island who in formed me that on this email island 01 u acres twenty five miles out from sandusky in lake erie brie skeletons of an unknown race were fouad that abat were over eight feet feel long this opened up a very plea pleasant sarAL tion in which ne said he be was vry very much interested in regard to colonists colonist from the tower of babel years before chrisc rne eleventh chapter ol of aelesia Goies Oe Lesia iv uee laren lares that toe the lord won d the he people irom from we the tower upon all the barta the great fishing mart at sandusky has baa failed for the past three years it previously had bad been thele the leading suing fish market of the he country this with stagnation of business gives a quietness toabe to the place making li it more lake a funereal city than oneff one of brisk utne much wine is made in sandusky ao grapes are plentiful on the around Ste steamers amere bring the graceb from the various dally daily tuio year groped have been sold on abt islands fur for one and one half cents pt pi p i pound wine sellers are abundant ui oi the islands aud and the product is 18 in every direction thousands anus of pleasure seekers resort tv tu the is landt the sum iner kelleys kellems Kel leys island is oue one of the gems gem ol 01 lake erie and is twelve miles wea of bandusky lu in latitude 41 deg 86 85 win north and longitude 82 deg 42 min west there are soree acres allaud uund divided up into small mall vine tine yards of from five to ten acres in 1846 only about 5 worth of grapes was sold eold but in 1861 there was waa this island is ie nut without its prehistoric history A atone 22 feet long and 21 feet wide which has baa parted from the island la in standing anding Bt 11 feet above water mark hieroglyphics are en graven upon this rook and the united states government detailed colonel eastman to examine them and report title this resulted in pronouncing them as an belonging to a race that t aiu 0 one could tell anything about seven acres of ground in a circular form of earthwork contained bones of ofa a large lare race of people relics etc 0 f this it to is said it to is clothed in mystery EDWARD STEVENSON |