ORNAMENTS OK STONE. ETC. 



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Fig. 134 is of similar material with that last mentioned. It is three inches long, 

 one and three fourths wide, and three fourths of an inch thick. Fig. 135 (half size) 

 differs in material and shape from those above described. It is composed of a 



Fio. 134. 



FlH. 135. 



compact ferruginous stone, much altered by heat, and was found on the altar in 

 the remarkable " Pipe Mound," in " Mound City" (page 152). It has but a single 

 perforation. 



It is a singular fact that the holes in the three specimens first noticed, as also 

 in some of those which follow, are placed exactly four fifths of an inch apart. 

 This could hardly have been the result of accident. These relics were found at 

 different localities, several miles distant from each other. 



F in. 1 3 li . 



The above engraving presents at one view seventeen figures of as many different 

 relics of this description, — all of which, with the exception of No. 7, and Nos. 12 

 to 17, are drawn of one fourth the size of the originals. 



