PREHISTORIC STRUCTURES CONNECTED WITH FISHING. 



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for a fishing-boat, and also for mooring gill-nets, fish-traps, and trawl-lines. It 

 is an artificially-prepared, grooved granite slab of square outline, firmly set into 



a somewhat anchor-like wooden structuie, terminating in flukes at the base a 



curious combination of the anchor-stone and the anchor. From Rockport, 

 Massachusetts. 



Fig. 344— " Killick." Massachusetts. (54417). 



PREHISTORIC STRUCTURES CONNECTED WITH FISHING. 



Fish-preserves. — Colonel Charles C. Jones, in his account of the mounds in 

 the State of Georgia, draws attention to artificial excavations occurring in the 

 immediate vicinity of some of the earthworks, and assigns to these excavations 

 the character of fish-preserves. He first notices the earthworks located upon 

 the right bank of the Etowah River, on the plantation of Colonel Lewis Tumlin, 

 a few miles from Cartersville, in Bartow County. I reproduce on page 198 his 

 plan of the works as Fig. 345, and quote his statements relative to them : — 



" Viewed as a whole," he says, " this group is the most remarkable within 

 the confines of the State. These mounds are situated in the midst of a beautiful 

 and fertile valley. They occupy a central position in an area of some fifty acres, 

 bounded on the south and east by the Etowah River, and on the north and west 



