Upon one of the highest points of the West Mountain, bordering on Candatowa or Ridgefield, in the north-east corner of the farm of Jeremiah Wood has been recently discovered ^ curious Indian " shingaba-wassin " or " Tonage stone." It consists of a hard stone fretted by the action of water into a shape resembling the trunk of a human body well rounded, with something resembling legs, with back and chest well denned, surmounted by an entablature, upon which there once doubtless stood a rude head. The trunk is about twenty-two inches high and twelve broad. There can be no doubt, as we have just observed, that it was formed by the sheer force of attrition -- such as is ordinarily given by the upheaving and rolling force of waves on a lake or ocean beach.
To the superstitious natives, who are not prone to reason from cause to effect, such productions appear indeed wonderful. All that is past comprehension, or wonderful, is attributed by them to the supernatural agency of spirits. The hunter or warrior, who is traveling along the coast, and finds one of these self-sculptured stones, is not sure that it is not a direct interposition of his God, or guardian Manito, in his favor. He is habitually a believer in the most subtle forms of mysterious power, which he acknowledges to be often delegated to the native priests, or necromancers. He is not staggared by the most extraordinary stretch of fancy, in the theory of the change or transformation