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gested, such as a fisliiiiji-line woijilit or a sinker. This speoinu'ii is not 

 smoothly finished, nor accurately outlined, as is usual Avith this pattern 

 of ornamental stones. The hole is nearly uniform in width, from side to 

 side, being somewhat more flaring upon the " wrong" side, or that 

 which is not marked with ornamental lines. These lines are an interest- 

 ing feature of this specimen. They are much less distinct than the 

 notches in figure 164, and are more than double their length ; the spaces 

 between them are much wider, and the lines themselves are engraved 

 upon the sides of the stone, instead of ou the end : yet, with all these dif- 

 ferences, their object was no doubt identical with that of the notches in 

 figure 164. About the perforation of this specimen are also four lines, 

 similar in depth and width to those ujion the sides, which are drawn at 

 such angles to each other as to meet above, at each side, and beneath, 

 making a diamond-shaped figure. AVhether this was merely for orna- 

 mentation, or, like the side markings, tor a record of certain events, is 

 not determined, but the j^robability is that it was only to compensate 

 for the general roughness of the specimen both as to shape and surface. 



Figure 166 represents a polished serpentine specimen of the same 

 general character as the preceding one. It is longer, but of the same 

 width; it is considerably thinner, flat upon both sides, and more highly 

 polished along the edges than over the sides. The perforation is quite 

 diflerent from that of figure 165, being a cup-shaped depression, made 

 upon each side, and meeting at the middle of the stone, the hole there 

 being but one-third the diameter of the drilling upon the surface. There 

 is no trace of any '' record" mark whatever upon this specimen ; it being, 

 in this respect, different from all the preceding examples, and similar to 

 one of the seventeen specimens figured by Messrs. Squier and Davis,* 

 except that the hole is nearer the end than that of the Ohio specimen. 

 Of the relics of this class, from Xew Jersey, the specimen figured is the 

 usual size ; but occasionally they have been found greatl}" exceeding it. 

 Mr. ISTewbold, of Burlington County, jS'ew Jersey, has one specimen ex- 

 actly twice the length, but otherwise like the one figured. 



Figure 167 represents a small, but very handsome gorget, which has a 

 marked peculiarity in the ornamentation upon one side. The specimen 

 itself is short, being but one inch and three-quarters in length. The 

 upper or i)erforated end is but three-eighths of an inch in widtli, and 

 from this upper margin the specimen increases uniformly in width until 

 near the bottom, when it rounds ofl" in an almost regular curve. The 

 hole appears to have been drilled wholly from the plain, or under side, 

 being wider there at the surface than upon the opposite side, which has 

 a slightly worn edge occasioned by the rubbing of the cord that sus- 

 I)ended it. We believe this si)ecimen to have been pierced with one of 

 the smaller stone drills figured in the preceding chapter. 



The ornamentation of figure 167 differs from any that we have ever 

 seen elsewhere. The surface of the stone has been smoothly Avoru oft', 



*L. c, p. y:i7. fig. 136, No. 14. 



