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Updated: May 19, 2025
A post-mortem examination revealed no cause of death, and a rustic jury again laid it to a "visitation of God." Until it was worn away by the elements a curious relief was visible on the bluffs of the Mississippi near Alton, Illinois. It was to be seen as late as 1860, and represented a monster once famous as the "piasa bird."
One of the monsters seen by the explorers remained on those rocks until the middle of our own century. It was called by the Indians the Piasa. More than two centuries of beating winter storms had not effaced the brilliant picture when it was quarried away by a stupidly barbarous civilization.
A post-mortem examination revealed no cause of death, and a rustic jury again laid it to a "visitation of God." Until it was worn away by the elements a curious relief was visible on the bluffs of the Mississippi near Alton, Illinois. It was to be seen as late as 1860, and represented a monster once famous as the "piasa bird."
The town of Alton, in the state of Illinois, is a little south of that rock where the Piasa dragons were seen. As the explorers moved ahead on glassy waters, they looked back, and the line of vision changing, they saw that the figures were cut into the cliff and painted in hollow relief.
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