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end. They were of various sizes, but on au average 6 inches long, 4 inches wide, 

 and an inch thick in the center (Plate 62, tig. 1). Some -were rudely blockod out; in 

 others the circnniferenco was chipped to a more or less defined edge. The material 

 is flint or hornstouo of fine texture, generally of a gray color, and showing some- 

 times concentric Lands, in the center of which is a nucleus of blue chalcedony, 

 thus demonstrating that the flint was formed in nodules and not in strata or layers. 



In October, 1801, Prof. Warren K. Jloorehead, while working for the Department 

 (M) of Ethnology, World's Columbian Exposition, Cliicago, continued tiie sus- 

 pended excavations of Scinier and Davis, and opened what he has described as 

 Mound No. 2, on Hopewell farm, Anderson Township, Ross County, near Chilli- 

 cothe. In three days' work Professor Moorehead took out 7382 of these Hint disks. 

 Others found in the immediate neighborhood increased tliis number to 818.").' 

 Plate 63 is from a photograph of the tent, and in front of it are the flint disks as 

 they were piled after being taken from the mound. 



Summit Coiinii/. — A cache of 197 leaf-shaped implements was found under the 

 stump of a tamarack tree 3 miles west of Akron. Mr. Thomas Rhodes sent 5 

 of them to the U. S. National Museum, December, 1878 (Cat. Nos. 34584-31588, 

 U.S.N.M.). They were from 5 to 7 inches long, 2^ to 3 inches wide, and ^to f inch 

 thick. Cat. No. 34584, No. 2, Plate 29, Class B, with rounded base, represents one 

 of these specimens. Their fini^ chipping and exceeding thinness are to be remarked. 



Buchtel College, Akron, exhibited at the Cincinnati Exposition of 1887 a, cache of 

 leaf-shaped implements similar in appearance to those found by Mr. Rhodes, wliether 

 l)art of the same is not known. 



Scioto County. — Mr. Thomas Kinney, of Portsmouth, had 125 leaf-shaped imple- 

 ments belonging to a cache discovered in his neighborhood, which he exhibited at 

 the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. - 



Lake County. — Colonel Whittlesey reported a cache of leaf-shaped implements 

 found by Mr. .J. C. Huntingdon near Painesville.^ 



Jshlaud County, Sullivan roiniship. — In 1872 Mr. S. W. Briggs discovered, while 

 plowing, a cache of 201 implements about 18 inches beneath the surface. They 

 were leaf-shaped, about 4 inches long, 2 to 2f inches wide and # inch thick. They 

 were dei)osited in a keg-like vessel of the bark of the red elm, 10 or 12 inches in 

 diameter and 13 inches in height. No signs of use. ' Figs. 105 and 106 are specimens 

 from this cache. As will be seen, both are thin, finely chipped, with rounded base 

 and of the form of Class B. 



Clarke County. — Cache of flint implements, number not given. ^ 



Holmes County, Washinyton Townsliip. — On the farm of Mr. Daniel Kick, 96 leaf- 

 shaped implements of Class B. They were found in the alluvial deposit at the 

 bottom of a pond, 3 feet beneath the surface. The U. S. National Museum possesses 

 2 of these specimens (Cat. Nos. 28345-46, U.S.N. M.) sent by Mr. H. B. Case. The 

 average sizes were 2| to 5i inches long, IJ to 2^ inches wide, and i to | inch thick, 

 very thin and finely chipped and of chalcedonic flint of the color of dirty beeswax.'' 



Butler County. — Prof. .1. S. McFetridge, of College Corner, rejjorts August 7, 1895, 

 a cache of 7 beautiful white flint arrowi>oint8, mon; chalcedony than flint. They 

 were all stemmed and shouldered, but not barbed (Division III, Class B), about 3^ 

 inches long and 1| inches wide (Plate 64). 



Putnam County. — Mr. Harry B. Maple, Columl)U8 (irove, Ohio, under date of Feb- 

 ruary 28, 1893, reports: 



"Early this fall a farmer living about 2 miles west of town related that about 

 seven years ago, he plowed into a nest of flints. I and a friend of mine went there 



' Primitive Man in Ohio, p. 189. 



-M. C. Read, American Antiquarian, I, 1879, p. 98. 



•■ Idem. 



^ George W. Hill, Smithsonian Report, 1874, p. 364. 



•'' Cyrus Thomas's Catalogue, p. 167. 



6H. B. Case, Smithsonian Report, 1877, p. 267, 



