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people could have been secured from Flint Ridge, distant less than one 

 hundred miles from this place. The chalcedony of Flint Ridge is superior 

 to the Tennessee chert. Why, then, should the Hopewell people have 

 brought a large mass of material so great a distance? Was it because 

 they were in closer touch with southern people than with northern ? Or 

 were the Flint Ridge quarries in the territory of a hostile tribe ? These 

 questions may have a bearing on the migration or origin of the Hope- 

 well people. 



Fig. 2j. 



Two Sandstone Tablets from Altar i. 



Ground and Polished Stone. — Forty-eight objects made of the 

 same fine grained sandstone of which the Cincinnati tablet is composed 

 were found in the group. Most of them were in Altar No. i, but one 

 rattlesnake tablet (Fig. 9, on p. 88) was found in Mound No. 1. Nine 

 of these sandstone objects may be classified as tablets, but the others 

 are almost celt-shaped, although they have not been brought to a cutting 

 edge. The largest of the tablets is 15.5 cm long, 9 cm wide and 1.5 cm 

 thick. The largest of the celt-shaped objects is 10 cm long and 3 cm 



