RELICS OF AN INDIAN HUNTING GROUND. 



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Fig. 07 is 51 .yneissoid rock, very rudely iiaked aud soinewliat pecked. 

 It is hard to conjecture to wliat use it may have been ])ut, thouj>ii 

 there is no (juestion about its having been worked into its present 

 shape. Fig. 68 is made of gr«^en shite. It is either an uiitinished 

 implement, or if completed, a very rudely fjxshioned one. The fact 

 that it is made of slate, as well as its shape, incline us to call it a 

 banner stone. 



IMI'I.KMKNTS OF UNKNOWN USK ( I lalf siz*'. ) 



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(07) Slate: Len,!;tli. 5 inches; thiekness, 1 iiicli. 

 ((iS) Slate: Lcii<;tli, ti incluvs; thickness, II; inehcs. 



Stoue Worlerls Chips. — Flakes of ielsire rock, of jasper, and of agate, 

 are found \\ ell distributed along the Codorus and its tributary runs. 

 The fact that tlie rocks of which these flakes are pieces are not natu- 

 rally found here is vc^ry signiiicant. The presence of these "chips" 

 proves that iiiii)leiuents were here wrought out of tlu^ rough stoiu' iuto 

 desirable shapes. Uiit tiu'sc^ minerals, felsite rock, jasper, and agate, 

 are not found in sUk in tliis icgiou. The fc^lsite rock occurs fully thirty 

 miles distant, in the iSoutli Mountain. W^here the agate and jas])er 

 were biought from has not been <letermined. ( )ccasionally Hakes of 

 white (|uart/, cover a snuill ai'ca in a lield containing in another part a 

 s])()t rich in Hakes of felsitic r(»ck. The presein-e of such spots seems 

 to indicate that each ancient slone workei' conlintMl iiis labors to chip- 

 ping a j»aiticular mineral. 



Conclusion. — Just what conclusions as to the Indian occu])ation of 

 this part of York county <-an safely be drawn from tlie number aud 



