Show c J ae 3 3 f n Z 4 11 40 t ile f xai B 6 Z 4 te za 5 1 1 I 1 MICHIGAN idol and a alb mila thre strange imael were bantly Du ducap cUp A remarkable find which seems to indicate of the neighborhood that the great lakes was a at t one time inhabited by a race of aborigines other than the indians indiana was recen recently aly made by two hunters near newberry says saya the new york journal in digging outa out a wild animal they unearthed a large stone tab tablet let six inches thick and eighteen by twenty five inches in SIZO size the entire surface of which was carved with curious symbolical characters beside the tablet were three stone images the largest was that of a man in a sitting posture and nearly life size the second image presumably that of weman bama a was three feet in height and the third was t that h at ot of a child in IL a sitting posture and about three feet high all three of the images geee were f found placed with their faces toward the east scientists who have examined the relics regard this as an indication that those who made them were SUB bulk worshipers apon the slab were engraved inscription set in a square of about one and one halt half inches there were of these figures carved om 0 the slab those who saw the statues say they look like egyptian egelan idols though the heads were those of hilm human beings and not of the sacred animals with which the ancient race of the nile was wont to ornament carved images these works bear a strong resemblance to the work of the aztec and the even more ancient toltec race arsee remnants of whose craft are scattered so plentifully about southern mexico and the central american rican states the trick of lengthening the eyes noticed in the michigan Mic bigan finds was known to the ancient inhabitants of mexico as aa well as to the egyptians and Is noticeable in the carvings of uxmal urmal and other ruins of the tees toltec and aztecs azteca the strange figures engraved within the squares are alga not without parallel being found upon the ornamentation of the sacrificial altars of central american ruins |