[66] "Lieutenant Pope's descending the river was, certainly a fortunate circumstance for the United States, though in doing it, he did not strictly comply with his orders from General Wayne, by whom he was instructed to remain at Fort Massac till he obtained some information respecting the evacuation of the posts, and if a judgment was to be formed from the provision made for the detachment, it could not be supposed that it was really intended to descend the river. It was in want of artillery, tents, money, medicines, and a physician. In consequence of this omission, or bad management, I had to furnish the men such articles as they were in need of, out of the stores appropriated for carrying the treaty into effect. And after all that I was able to do, we had (to our great mortification) to borrow some tents from the Governor" (Ellicott's Journal, 80). [67] They were plowed up by Mr. W. T. Hutchins in a field about three-quarters of a mile east of Hebron and were sent to the Smithsonian by Mr. T. J. R. Keenan. In the field where these objects were found, the outlines of a pre-historic fort could be easily traced until a few years ago. [68] Since the above paper was written I have obtained one jasper bead, found fifteen miles north of Hot Springs, Ark. It is cylindrical in form, one inch long, one-fourth of an inch in external diameter, and has a longitudinal perforation one-tenth of an inch in diameter. The material resembles that of the set found in Mississippi. I have also seen several perforated jasper ornaments in the possession of Prof. J. G. Deupree, of the University of Mississippi, which were found in Copiah county, Mississippi, and I have been informed that several similar objects are in the possession of persons in Copiah County. It will be noted that the quartzite, or jasper, of which these ornaments are made, is a very different material from the comparatively soft and easily-worked red sandstone--"Catlinite"--extensively used by the Indians of the Northwest in the manufacture of pipes and ornaments. Transcriber's Notes Obvious punctuation errors repaired. Transposed lines corrected on pp. 16. Hyphen added "battle-flags" (p. 82), "to-day" (p. 14). P. 3: "inforamtion" changed to "information" (lack of information). P. 9: "friendy" changed to "friendly" (friendly sympathy). P. 16: "comonplace" changed to "commonplace" (commonplace that literature). P. 21: "geophraphical" changed to "geographical" (geographical names). P. 22: "Misissippi" changed to "Mississippi" (Mississippi literature). P. 27: "enactemnt" changed to "enactment" (explanatory enactment). P. 29: "confererd" changed to "conferred" (vote was conferred). P. 29: "referenece" changed "reference" (without reference). P. 31: "atuhorized" changed to "authorized" (authorized a free white male). P. 33: "Conuty" changed to "County" (Warren County). P. 33: "assesed" changed to "assessed" (had been assessed).