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Kansas Acadeynij of Science. 



A i)r('liistnrii' niillstono. 



original of the platter, and give us an insight into the origin 

 of dishes and pottery as well as the development of stone ves- 

 sels, while the material, the use, and the position when in use, 

 bring us back to ourselves — the nether millstone of granite 

 differing as to the result only in that the buhr is now revolved 

 by mechanical means as against the former fair hands of 

 "women grinding at the mill." 



The edge of the stone bears several marks of violence, but 

 consideration of these might only lead us into speculations and 

 musings. 



This stone is now in the Kansas Academy of Sciences at 

 Topeka. 



