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however, more apparent on the outside than it is inside, since the 

 partition is largely cut away, the two cavities being distinct only 

 at the top and a short distance below it. Most unfortunately, the 

 lower end is broken, so that it is not possible to know exactly how 

 it terminated. Probably, however, this part 

 of the pipe grew narrower and formed a 

 stem or mouthpiece. As is true of most of 

 our pipes, the excavated portion was cut, 

 not bored, for the numerous tool-marks are 

 parallel with the long axis of the bowl; 

 moreover, the openings are not quite circu- 

 lar, as they must have been if the bowl had 

 been drilled out. The opening at the top of 

 each is nearly five eighths of an inch in 

 greatest diameter. The height is about two 

 inches. At a is the small opening into the * 

 double bowl. The specimen is very well pol- 

 ished. The material is a fine-grained, dark- 

 green steatite. It was found near Swanton, 

 in the northern part of Vermont, as also 

 were those previously described. 



Another very unique specimen is seen in 

 Fig. 4. It is apparently intended to repre- 

 sent some quadruped, and if so it is espe- 

 cially interesting, as the only object thus 

 far discovered in this region having the 

 form of an animal. Although a rather 

 clumsy piece of work, I think that there can 

 be no doubt that the maker tried to fashion 

 the pipe after a bear or some other familiar 



animal. The four legs are well defined, and those on the one side 

 are separated from those on the other by a deep groove. The 

 material is the usual steatite, of a gray color, and the surface is 

 smooth and fairly well polished. As the figure shows, there are 

 about the bowl several oval or quadrangular excavations, which 

 may have been considered sufficiently ornamental in themselves, 

 or they may have been filled by some ornamental bits of stone or 

 shell. As compared with the entire pipe, the hollow of the bowl 

 is small and not much larger than the opening for the stem. The 

 length of this pipe is over two inches and the width is one inch, 

 while the height is a little more. 



In an article by the writer in The American Naturalist,* a 

 Vermont pipe is mentioned and figured which has a projection on 

 one side of the rim that may very probably have been intended 





Fiu. 6. 



* Vol. xiii, p. 735. 



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