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aware of tbe objects of search, they brought me large numbers, mauy 

 of them of iuteresting shape and workmauship. The bank here is a 

 long, gravelly slope up from the water, above which are successive 

 steps or benches of clay, bounded by a perpendicular wall of clay. It 

 is on the uppermost bench of clay that nearly all tbe specimens, fin- 

 ished and unfinished, and the chippings, are found. Those found below 

 this point invariably appeared to have been washed down. 



The boys assured me that they could take me to a point across on 

 the Indiana shore where I could get a wheelbarrow-load, but as I had 

 neither time nor wheelbarrow, I was forced to forego the proposed visit. 



I have no doubt that thousands of specimens could be obtained by a 

 visit to the landing-places on both sides of the river between Louisville 

 and Evausville. 



One specimen shown me, but which the owner refused to part with 

 on account of some superstitious regard, considering it in the nature of 

 a charm, was sixteen inches long and five broad, in shape nearly like a 

 willow-leaf. It was a white, cherty limestone. I heard of a large stone 

 l>ipe found two years ago, but after an active search where last seen no 

 trace could be found of it. The children had been allowed to use it for 

 a plaything, and it had thus been lost. 



Returning to Louisville, during a stroll of perhaps a mile on the river- 

 bank below the cement-works, and upon the same clay bench, I found 

 several complete and many broken specimens of worked flints, and. 

 this where mauy people pass and repass every day. 



On the whole, I conclude that the men of the stone-age who occupied 

 the shores of the Ohio and dwelt in the caverns and rock-shelters of 

 the interior, had not advanced to that stage of the arts which led men 

 to give a beautiful finish to their weapons and to carve and perforate 

 stones for ornament or for badges of authority, like the prehistoric 

 men of many other localities, but contented themselves with such imr 

 plements and weapons as the necessities of their wild life required, 

 without spending much time in giving artistic touches to their manu- 

 factured articles. 



ANTIQUITIES OF ISLE ROYALE, LAKE SUPEIIIOR. 



By a. C. Davis, of Detroit, Mich. 



I send you three photographic views of a mass of copper found in 

 clearing some ancient mine-pits on Isle Eoyale, Lake Superior. The 

 mass was found in the bottom of a pit sixteen and a half feet deep, and 

 was completely detached from the surrounding rocks. All the wings 

 have been beaten ofi" by the ancient miner with his stone hammers — evi- 

 dences of which can be seen ail over its upper surface. The section it 

 was taken from is 27, 66 north, range 35 west. The belt of rock in 



which it was found is of a sedimentary character, highly metamorphosed, 

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