Excerpt from The Indian in His Wigwam, or Characteristics of the Red Race of America: From Original Notes and Manuscripts A good deal of historical interest clusters about this discovery of the inscribed stone. Tomlinson, the grandfather, settled on these flats in 1772, two years before the murder of Logan's family. Large trees, as large as any in the forest, then covered the flats and the mound. There stood in the depression I have mentioned, in the top of the mound, a large beech' tree, which had been visited earlier, as was shown by several names and dates cut on the bark. Among these, there was one of the date of A. D. 1784. This 1' have seen stated mder Mr. Tomlinson' s own hand. The place continued to be much visited from 1770 to 1790, as was shown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.