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used in fishing. The general opinion that these so-called drills were 

 used for perforating stone or other implements may be true. So far as 

 my own observation extends this view is not sustained. Hundreds of 

 them have been examined by the writer, and many are in his cabinet, 

 yet out of all these not a half dozen would indicate that they had been 

 used for driUs. If so used their edges would be more or less broken. 

 In Butler County, Ohio, they are almost wholly found along our larger 

 streams. It is probable that sometimes they were used for drilling, but 

 usually in fishing or in the chase. 



The forms of spear-heads made from chert and other stone are various. 

 One with a sagittate base is composed of a very pure and clear chalce- 

 dony. Only the stem or base is left ; the shaft lost. This form is rare 

 in the latitude of Ohio. 



Other forms of implements were secured; a drilled ornament com- 

 posed of the columella of the Pyrula perversa ; another composed of the 

 same, not perforated, resembling a handle, but with no appearance of 

 ever having been so used ; the tips of the horn of the deer, already re- 

 ferred to ; pendants composed of cannel-coal, in one the eyelet is broken, 

 but in the other it is perfect ; beads made from bones of the bird ,• a bone 

 awl; one cup-shaped form is called an "eagle-stone." It is a natural 

 formation, and must have been picked up from the gravel. It is partly 

 drilled, and perhaps intended for a suspended ornament. 



Three forms of pipes occur in the collection. One is composed of 

 baked clay, and is as hard as stone. It somewhat resembles catlinite. 

 Near it was found the stem, composed of the same material. As this 

 stem makes a complete fit in the orifice or stem end of the pipe there can 

 be no question that it was intended for this identical pipe. The work- 

 men did not complete it, for the perforation is still unfinised. At one 

 end its depth is one inch, and at the other one-fourth inch. A second 

 pipe is composed of a fine-grained sandstone, blackened by use and age. 

 At the top and opposite from the stem is a lip made for adornment. 

 The third is an incomplete pipe, composed of calcite, and intended to 

 represent the head, neck, and breast of some bird. A tube composed 

 of steatite found with it was, in all probability, a pipe-stem. 



Among the pottery fragments are ears; one is perfect and the other 

 broken. One stone celt might be classed between hatchet and bark- 

 peeler. It is somewhat rude, never was finished, and is composed of 

 greenstone. A polished hatchet composed of greenstone and a tool of 

 the same material, probably used as a polisher, are types of stone im- 

 plements. 



Circular discs occur. Some of them are perforated; one is discoidal, 

 and all of them are composed of fine micaceous sandstone, except- 

 ing one, of cannel-coal. Its face is smooth, and near the center is a 

 countersink. The perforation is regular, but not smooth. The opposite 

 side is roundish, with a slight depression at the center. It is scratched 

 by the coarse grains of sand. 



