SOME REMAINS of ANTIQUITY. 179 



N^ XXII. 



A Drawing of fame U/enJils^ or Ornaments, taken from an 

 old Indian Grave, at Cincinnati, County of Hajnilton, and 

 Territory of the United-States, North-we/i of the River 

 Ohio, Augiifl 2,0th 1794. By Colonel Winthrop 

 Sarj KN T. Communicated by Benjamin Smith Bar- 

 ton, M. D. 



Explanations. 



Figures. 



1. A ftone or compofidon, hard and ponderous; fu- 



perficies imooth and regular, almoft as if finiflied 

 in a turner's lathe — mixed colours of black and 

 ■white, or grey. 



2. Do. do. of verditer colour throughout. 



3. A cryftaliine fubftance, regularly wrought as the 



preceding figure, and of conliderable degree of 

 tranfparency. 



4. As figure i . — Mixed black and yellow colours. 



5. Probably a compofition, ponderous and of dark co- 



lour, like black glazed potter's ware — feems to 

 have been hardened by the fun or fire, and une- 

 qually compreffed in the operation. Two views 

 are prefented, better to fliew this efied. 



6. A reprefentation of the bill of Ibme bird, not now 



known in this country. 



7. A regular circular figure of rufiy black colour, to- 



lerably Vv-ellpolilhed, and not unlike ebony in ap- 

 pearance, but much lefs ponderous; probably 

 either of coal or a compofition: — No. 2. fhews 

 a fegment of the fame — its exterior and interior 

 dimenfions — the groove or place for a band : at 



the 



