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

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of animate into inanimate objects, and vice versa ; all things ;' in heaven and earth," he believes to be subject to this subtle power of metamorphosis.

But, whatever be the precise operating cause of the respect he pays to the imitative rolled stones, which he calls Shingaba-wossins, and also by the general phrase of Muz-in-in-a-wum, or images, he is not at liberty to pass them without hazarding something, in his opinion, of his chance of success in life, or the fortune of the enterprise in hand. The Indian is not precise in the matter of proportion, either in his drawing or in his attempts at statuary. He seizes upon some minute and characteristic trait, which is at once sufficient to denote the species, and he is easily satisfied about the rest. Thus a simple cross, with a straight line from shoulder to shoulder and a dot, or circle above, to serve for a head, is the symbol of the human frame; and without any adjunct of feet or hands, it could not have been mistaken for anything else -- certainly for any other object in the animal creation."a There can be but little doubt this image was brought originally from the vicinity of Lake Waccabuc or VVepuc, and set up on a level spot on the summit of one of the highest hills of Candatowa, (a name that signifies " High Lands,") a site well chosen, thickly shaded with trees, and bearing luxuriant grass and wild shrubbery and flowers, with here and there peeps or openings of a wide expanse of country extending all around it, embracing the Asproom mountain range north of Lake Wepuc, the hills stretching northeast to Danbury, the dark green looking Stony Hills, to the west, and the distant Dunderburg and Kittatenny Mountains, &c.