[crystalk]

If you are right, it would increase the chance that the stone is legitimate.

[DensaMensa]

The Indians probably had a special oversized "Bekins Edition" canoe, designed just for long haul moving. ha.

[LostTribe]

It's not too difficult to trace the Hebrews from Abraham ~2000 BC through the Lost Tribes of Israel to the Celts, and from there to the Vikings. And you can get the Vikings from Scandinavia to Minnesota. With a little help from Barry Fells America BC I think this whole geneology might fall neatly into line.

[Free Trapper]

I use canoes in my work and 220 pounds would be nothing to worry about.A typical modern canoe is rated at about 750 pounds and will handle much more.The explorers,trappers,traders,etc.used some canoes that would make ours look tiny.The weight in the bottom helps stabilize the canoe.Also a canoe is about the best thing for dragging weight across sand bars,etc.

[Free Trapper]

I just recalled that my wife has a metate in her garden I found years ago.It's about 100-110 pounds and nearly cubic sandstone.It was about to fall in the river from a cut bank.The only way I could find to get it out before it would fall in was on a small raft.About a three mile float was easy.Getting it up a steep muddy bank was the hard part.If I was worried about the weight of a stone on a bark canoe some willow branches underneath would distribute the weight.I was 16 when I found the metate and got it out alone but a canoe sure would have helped.