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Worlshops. — In township 18, range 7 east, of Talladega County, on 

 the headwaters of Talladega Creek, at the eastern end of Cedar Kidge, 

 (a spur of the Eebecca Potsdam sandstone Mountain) in the old fields 

 where the JMontgomery Mining & Manufacturing Company's, Sulphur, 

 Bluestone, Copperas, and Alum Works were situated, wagon loads of 

 quartz fragments, broken arrow-heads, and spear-points, cover the 

 ground ; but on a much larger scale appears to have been the manu- 

 factory of these implements in township 19, range 27 east, of Lee County, 

 on the Columbus Georgia branch of the AVestern Railroad east of 

 Tougesborough ; for in the fields, on the southeastern side of a low 

 ridge called Storees Mountain, many acres are covered with the broken 

 quartz, in every variety of that mineral found in this hill, from trans- 

 parent rock crystal to jasper and chalcedony ; among which occasional 

 good implements occur. 



Stone-heaps. — In township 23, range 14 east, of Chilton County, on 

 the middle prong of Yellowleaf Creek, about 3J miles northeast of 

 Jemison Station, on the South and North Alabama Eailroad, there are 

 three stone heaps. The first one is about 100 yards from and on the 

 west bank, being about 20 feet in diameter, and from 4 to 5 feet high at 

 the center, with a post oak and pine growing on it of ancient appear- 

 ance, and each of them about 8 inches in stump measurement. Two 

 others nearly west of this, distant about 700 yards on the eastern brow 

 of the ridge, are about 100 yards apart ; one of them about 10 and the 

 other 20 feet in diameter at the base and from 4 to 5 feet high at the 

 center, which, though in the primitive forest, have no trees growing on 

 them. Another, 1 mile east of these, on a more westerly ridge, in the 

 same range and township, is about 50 feet in diameter at the base and 

 over 5 feet high at the center. In township 21, range 3 west, on the 

 quartzite ridge east of Siluria (about 1 mile), on the South and North 

 Alabama Eailroad, occurs a smaller stone heap than any of those be- 

 fore mentioned, supposed to be the grave of an Indian warrior. 



ABORIGINAL SOAPSTONE QUAEEY AND SHELL-HEAPS IN 



ALABAMA. 



By Charles Mohr, of Mobile, Alabama. 



In the course of a mineralogical trip through the region of metamor- 

 phic rocks in this state, stopping at Dudleyvillc, Tallapoosa County, I 

 heard much of an ancient soapstone quarrj-, worked by a race of which, 

 according to the statements of the first settlers amongst the Creeks j^nd 

 Muscogees, no tradition existed among these tribes. I was urgently 

 pressed, but could not go, to visit the quarry myself, so it is due to Dr. 

 Johnston, of Dudley ville, that I am enabled to make this contribution. 

 The' geutleraau writes: "I iiicked up the large fragments near excava- 



