962 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



MARYLAND. 



Quarry of rhyolito near Sugar Loaf Mountain. Dr. W. H. Holmes. 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 



Ancient quarries nearWashingtou.' 



rrebistoric (juarrie.s in the vicinity of Washington.' 



Ancient village sites and ahoriginal workshops. ' 



Contributions to the Archaology of the District of Columbia.^ 



A (]uarry of quartzito bowUlcrs has been discovered on the hills at Piuey Hr.inch, 



together with an extensive manufactory of rude implements. It was excavated by 



Dr. W. n. Holmes and is described at length.' 



WEST VIRGINIA. 



Putnam County. — Ancient furnace, 4 miles east of Ifurricaue, ou the farm of .T. J. 

 Estes. Described by Mr. P. W. Norris. 



NORTH CAROLINA. 



Cherokee County. — Ancient mining excavations on farm of Mercer Fain, near Col- 

 vard Creek, on north side of Valley River, 5 miles above Murphy. Other old min- 

 ing indications iu the same county. Rei^orted by James Mooney. 



GEORGIA. 



Savannah liiver. — At some points, e\ en in the depths of the swamp region, may 

 still be noted traces of small open-air workshops. *- * * 



These exist not only along the line of the Savannah River, but frequently occur 

 on the banks of the Oconee, Ocmulgee, the Flint, the Chattahoochee, and other 

 Southern streams. * * * Within the past few years not less than 8,000 well- 

 formed arrow and spearpoints have been collected on both banks of the Savannah 

 Avhere it separates the counties of Columbia and Lincoln in Georgia and Edgefield 

 County iu South Carolina. Even now the supply is by no means exhausted. The 

 annual jilowings and constantly recurring freshets reveal each season new examples 

 of the taste and skill of these ancient workmen. In the enumeration of the imple- 

 ments taken from this locality we do not include multitudes partially formed and 

 broken, which, with quantities of chips, still mark the spots set apart for the manu- 

 facture. Sometimes we encounter a locality, many yards long and several wide, the 

 surface of which is covered to the depth of several inches with fragments struck off 

 during the process of manufacture, and with cores and wasters abandoned from 

 some inherent defect in the material or broken by the workman. Some idea may 

 thus be formed of the extent and duration of the labors of theoe primitive workers 

 in stone. t^ 



Jefferson and Burke counties. — Dr. Roland Steiuer, now of Grovetown, Georgia, 

 has been, during almost his entire life, an enthusiastic collector, and has pushed his 

 investigations iu many directions throughout the State. He formerly lived near 



' Elmer R. Reynolds and F. W. Putnam, Report Peabody Museum, XII, pp. 475, 

 526-535. 



2T. R. Peale, Smithsonian Report, 1872, pp. 430-432. 



^S. V. Proudfit, American Anthropologist, II, pp. 241-246. 



••Louis A. Kengla, 1883. 



■'•American Anthropologist, .January, 1890, III, p. 1; Fifteenth Annual Report 

 Bureau of Ethnology, 1893-94, pp. 33-66; and American Naturalist, XXX, December, 

 1896, pp. 874-885; No. 360, December, 1896, pp. 976-992. 



"Charles C. Jones, jr., Smithsonian Report, 1879, pp. 378, 379. 



