964 KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1«97. 



road, east of Youngsboro, for iu the fields ou the southeastern side of a low ridge 

 called Story's Mountain, acres are covered with the broken quartz in every variety 

 of that mineral found in this hill, from transparent rock crystal to jasper and 

 chalcedony, among which occasional good implements occur.' 



OHIO. 



Licking and Muskingum counties. — Throughout eastern Ohio there are numerous 

 deposits of Hint of various descriptions, and in several counties ])laces are to be 

 found in which the ''ancient arrow maker" practiced his calling with the material 

 so abundantly supplied. - 



Flint quarry on Williams Hill, Licking Connty, 3 miles west of Brownsville. 

 Rei)ortcd by Gerard Fowke. 



Chandlersville, Salt Creek, Muskingum County, Ohio, was the scene of the opera- 

 tions of the Muskingum Mining Company iu 1820 for mining silver. It was on the 

 National road, 10 miles east of Zanesville. A writer, evidently well-known, though 

 his name is not given, tells ' of a trip he took through this country, and describes 

 the wells and pits sunk here by the company in which ho was a subscriber, part 

 owner, and heavy loser. He says, in his report of excavations and drillings, that 

 at a depth of 120 feet they struck a bed of gray Hint rock, 6 or 8 feet in thickness. 

 He continues the record of his journey : 



" One mile east of Somerset the National road commences crossing at Flint Ridge. 

 [Plates 13-15.] Its general course is from northeast to southwest, passing through 

 the counties of Coshocton, Licking, Muskingum, Perry, Hocking, and Jackson, and 

 probably into Kentucky. In Hocking County it seems to have been deposited in a 

 fine siliceous paste of various colors, from pure white to yellow, clouded, and black, 

 and is used for whetstones. In Jackson and Muskingum counties it is extensively 

 manufactured into bulir millstones. The whole deposit abounds in casts of fossil 

 shells beautifully replaced in many cases by pure quartz. Some are studded over 

 with drusy crystals, others filled with chalcedony and quite translucent. The 

 various families of Product!, Ammonites, Nautili, Encrine, etc., with many unde- 

 scribed species, are found here. » * * In many places it abounds in jasper, horn- 

 stone, Hint, quartz, chalcedony, etc., of various and intermingled colors" (p. 233). 



Washington County. — A "magazine" of arrowpoints and spearheads at Waterford, 

 near the banks of the Muskingum. ^ 



Perry County. — Flint diggings at New Lexington. 



"At New Lexington, Perry Connty, Ohio, on a knoll near the railroad station, are 

 many ancient flint diggings. The flint hero constitutes a regular layer or stratum 

 in the coal measures and is about 4 feet thick. It is well exposed in the railroad cut 

 on the side of the knoll. Geologically speaking, the flint is a local modification of 

 the Putnam Hill limestone, a well-defined stratum of wide extent in southeastern 

 Ohio. Many of the pits must have been from 6 to 8 feet deep. The flint is fossilif- 

 erous, and much of it is not compact enough for arrowheads, and around the old 

 excavations are heaps of the rejected material. These excavations are now largely 

 refilled with earth and debris. I had no time to reopen any of them in search of the 

 tools by which the flint was quarried. I have little doubt that these pits were snnk 

 by the mound builders.''"' 



Mahoning County. — Flint diggings in the southwestern corner of the county. 

 Reported by Mr. Gerard Fowke. 



Coshocton County. — Deposits of chalcedony, basanite, etc., on land of Col. I'ren. 

 Metham, jNIr. R. R. Whittakcr, and Mr. Criss, in the soutli -central portion of Jefler- 

 son Township. Reported by Mr. Gerard Fowke. 



' William Gesner, Smithsonian Report, 1881, p. 617. 

 "Charles M. Smith, Smithsonian Report, 1884, p. 853. 

 ■''American Journal of Science and Arts, XXV, p. 226. 

 'Haywood, Natural aud Aboriginal History of Tennessee, p. 35.'. 

 ^ E. P. Andrews, Report Peabody Museum, X, pp. 53, 51. 



