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Show Strange Markings Found on Rocks In Round Valley BISHOP, Cal., Oct. 10 Amateur archeologists of this section are endeavoring en-deavoring to interest professional scientists sci-entists of the east in the epigraphs ...M1. U 11.. - c t- 1 vkuiuu auuuuu uii uiu luunb ul nuuiiu Valley, not far from this city, and which are believed to be as old, Is not older, than the hieroglyphics of earliest Egypt, to which they bear a strange resemblance. It is believed by many that the strange markings constituted the means by which ancient tribes marked the source of water supply for the benefit of those of their number who lived roving lives. These hieroglyphics have never been deciphered, although they are matters of record in the leading museums of the country, it is said. The Indian tribe now living in this vicinity declares de-clares they are not the work of the Indians of North America and that they antedate all aboriginal lore. Some who have examined the strange markings in the flinty boulders say the hieroglyphics closely rcscmblo those of earliest Egypt and may replace re-place the latter as the first written language of humanity. They are found always In the vicinity vicini-ty of water supplies, the same markings mark-ings discovered near Bishop appearing appear-ing on rocks extending through the Canadian border, down through Washington, Wash-ington, Oregon and California, to the Mexican lino and beyond. This fact, it is argued, indicates that prehistoric tribes marked a highway for their migrating mi-grating members or for their armies, giving specific directions as to the best water supplies nlong the way. nn |