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its chin, facing westward, or toward Hudson River. Underneath it was 

 found a piece of burnt sandstone, rudely chipped into the form of an 

 arrow-head. With the exception of this stone and a bit of chipped horn- 

 stone, nothing- was discovered with the bodies. In the hollow on Fox's 

 Point, below and west of this little hillock, the sand, when dug up, 

 showed traces of fire, being red instead of yellow. Intermixed with it 

 were a great nuin ber of broken stones, which also seemed to have been 

 burned. Here were found many implements, both fragmentary and 

 entire. They were pounders (oval or round cobble-stones with worked 

 depressions on either side for the fingers), spear-heads, arrowheads, 

 pestles, &c. On top of the rising ground east of Fox's Point and the 

 railroad many stone implements were found. In 1876 Mr. E. W.Frazer 

 picked up near this place half of a steatite dish, which is now in the 

 American Museum of Natural History in New York City. No iron im- 

 plements of any kind have been recovered here, and no bodies except 

 those mentioned above. The total number of perfect implements from 

 this locality, now in the writer's possession, is as follows: Pounding- 

 stones, 32 ; pestles, 5 j arrow and spear points, 103 ; hoes, 6 ; axes, or 

 hammers, 2; drill, 1; rubbing-stone, 1. The fragments and flakes 

 amount to several hundreds. 



NOTES ON THE WAMPANOAG INDIANS. 



By Henry E. Chase, A. B., of Brookline, Mass. 



Every year the signs of Indian settlements along our coast are becom- 

 ing fewer. The experience of the last two years has taught the writer 

 that great ignorance prevails among those persons whom we might most 

 reasonably expect to direct us to the sites of Indian towns. He has 

 thought it worth while, therefore, to put on record, for the convenience 

 of others, the exact sites of all the Indian shell heaps and other indica- 

 tions of Indian settlement seen during the summers of 1882 and 1883. 

 Besides the mere description of the towns in their present condition, 

 and the implements, weapons, &c, found at or near them, a general 

 history will be given of what has been recorded or is known on the sub- 

 ject from other sources, together with a detailed account of the origin, 

 language, customs, manners, traditions, and religion of these Indians, 

 so far as it was possible to gather them. Further study shows that 

 much of this information is already in such available form in the works 

 of Gookin, Williams, and a few other early writers, who had the best 

 opportunities to study the Indians, that all subsequent scholars will 

 prefer to consult them in the original. References will be made to these 

 and other works which are useful in the study of the Indians referred 

 to in these notes, and only so much of them will be quoted as is abso- 

 lutely necessary to give one unacquainted with the Indian tribes of 



