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RELICS OP AN INDIAN HUNTING GROUND. 



Pestles. — Even fragments of i)estles are scarce. I know of only one, 

 Fig. 53, tliat has been found whole. It may not be out of place to state 

 here the origin of such specimens, as given by one not accustomed to 

 collect relics. A very smooth and cylindrical section, about two inches 

 long, of a pestle was shown to a farmer, near whose house it had been 

 found. He immediately i)ronounced it a thunderbolt! 



PESTLK. (One-sixth size.) 

 53 



(.'S.S) Qnartzite: Length, 15 iuches; thickness, 2 inches. 



Pottery. — We found a few fragments of pottery in four widely separated 

 localities. In two of these localities pieces of soapstone, i^arts of dishes, 

 were also picked up. The pieces of pottery, made out of clay and 

 broken pebbles, mateiials easily obtained here, are similar to pieces 

 from the Susquehanna. The imjyressions are evidently of two kinds, 

 those made by a stylus of some sort in the hands of the ancient potter 

 and those which resulted from the structural irregularities of some 

 receptacle within which the plastic clay was first shaped. 



POTTERY, SOAPSTONE DISH. (Hali-size) 



57 



55 



54 



(54) Pottery Fragiu(>nts: Thickness, y",,- inch. 



(55) Pottery Fragment: Thickness, -j inch. 



(56) Pottery Fragment: Thickness, i inch. 



(57) Soapstone Dish: Thickness, | inch. 



Soapstone dishes — Fragments of soapstone dishes were collected in 

 four or five separate localities. The ''ear" piece illustrated is one of 

 eight pieces found near together and evidently all parts of the same 

 A^essel. The largest of these fragments is six inches long and eight 

 inches wide. The dish originally must have been a foot in length and 

 nearly as broad^ with a depth of five or six inches, Soapstone is not 



