!)76 REPORT OP NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1897. 



and iliijj theiu out. They were mostly in the clay about 2 feet deep. Tlu-y nearly 

 all cousisted of a reddish material, although some were a light gray. I sent by 

 mail to-day some samples of them." 



These were duly received by the U. S. National Museum and are fatalogned as No. 

 149611. The material appears as though from Flint Ridge. They were leaf-shaped 

 (Division I, Class B). 



Franklin County. — Cacho on Wetmorcr farm, northwest one-half of section 2, town- 

 ship 1, range 18. Number not given.' 



Montgomery County. — Two miles west of Centerville, on farm of Mr. W. Whitman, 

 Cache of 640 leaf-shaped iuiplements. Class B, rounded base. They were placed 

 edge up and thus about two dozen were broken by the ])low. The weight of the 

 cache was 49 pounds. - 



Columbiana County. — Mr. I. L. Kite, in a letter of February 25, 1878, published in the 

 Cleveland Herald, describes a find near Damascus. "The deposit would fill a 

 bushel basket. They were all jilaced on the broad end, enough set up to fill a cer- 

 tain circle, then another on top, and then another until a perfect cone was formed." 



INDIANA. 



Tliirty miles south of Chicago. — Cache of 96 leaf-shaped implements pointed at both 

 ends (Division I, Class A), from Si to 4 inches long, of dark grayi8h-l)rown jaspery 

 flint, buried under a stump. Discovered and reported August 2, 1895, by Dr. Daniel 

 B. Freeman, 4080 Drexel Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois. 



Cache of 82 specimens found near Blue River by Mr. Ira Williams of Borden, 

 Indiana. These are similar to the flints found by Dr. Snyder in Illinois and Professor 

 Moorehend in Ohio, slightly pointed at both ends, made from similar nodules of black 

 flint. The largest is about 6 inches long and 5 inches wide, while the smallest is 

 about 3 inches long and 2 inches wide. 



Franklin County. — Small caches of dint disks have been found, one cache contain- 

 ing 12, another 80 or 90 disks.^ 



ILLINOIS. 



White and Jefferson counties. — "In the Smithsonian Report for 1876^ is Cited a 

 remark of Messrs. S(iuier and Davis relating to the disks of black flint. There have 

 been two deposits found in this country, one in the county south of us (White), and 

 one in the county west (.Jefterson). The first one contained 13 of tliem, of which I 

 obtained 8, and the other contained 46, of which I obtained several.'"' 



Jackson County. — A caihe of 100 implements made from chert nodules found in 

 calcareous rocks near Carbondale, Jackson County, Illinois. Size from 7 by 5^ 

 inches to 4 by 3} inches. Donated by Mr. John G. Sims; collected by Mr. J. D. 

 Middleton. Cat. No. 88451, U.S.N.M. 



Union County. — Eight hornstono disks, large, from Union County, Illinois. T. M. 

 Perrine, Cat. Nos. 278.53-27860, U.S.N.M. (Plate 62, fig. 2). 



Schuyler County. — A few years ago, at Bluff" City, Illinois, some hogs confined in a 

 pen at the foot of the bluff's rooted out of the ground a deposit of 16 polished-stone 

 axes, all of which bore marks of use. They were of hard, compact diorite, and 

 varied in size from 6 to 16 inches in length, and from 2 to 7 incites in width. Con- 

 sidering the probable nses to which these tools had been applied, and the location 

 of the deposit, in a spur of the bluff near tbe (Illinois) river, it was plain that here, 

 ill ages past, a canoe had been constructed. The work completed, the tools were 

 cached at the foot of the bluff", until they should again be needed for similar work.'' 



' Thomas's Catalogue, jj. 171. 



- S. H. Binkley, American Antiquarian, III, 1881, p. 144. 



^ Edgar R. Quick, Smithsonian Report, 1S79, p. 373. 



•• Page 436. 



•''H. F. Sibley, Smithsonian Report, 1881, j). 589. 



''J. F. Snyder, Smithsonian Report, 1876, j). 434. 



