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holes were made. It would test the best of steel to make them, as 
they are composed of hard quartzose sand, yet I suppose it was 
done with flint. 
In some instances there are two holes pecked in each side, and 
afew are found of a grayish and reddish sandstone, while oc- 
casionally there is a larger stone filled with the same kind of 
holes, as if they had been used for anvils. These last were evi- 
dently not brought from the river bed, but obtained on the 
spot, as indeed may have been the case with the cobbles. 
It is very singular (to me at least) that not one of the cobbles 
has ever been found elsewhere in the vicinity, not even among 
all the relics found at Lamb’s Creek, two miles and a half be- 
low. It is a matter of equal interest that nota single fragment, 
large or small, of the curious pottery found on the river flats, 
at points not half a mile away, and mentioned as occurring so 
frequently at Lamb’s Creek, has ever been found at this place. 
The flint chips, arrow points, and these cobbles, 1 have found 
in some instances imbedded in the soil directly under large pine 
stumps, with which the ground was formerly occupied, and 
which I grubbed out 4 few years since. In two places where I 
had occasion to level the ground I found, a few inches beneath 
the surface, what appeared to be ancient fireplaces, with charred 
wood, bones, and arrow points. 
February 13, 1888. 
SraTeD MEETING. 
Vice-President, Pror. O. P. HupBarp, in the chair. 
Fifty-three persons present. 
Dr. H. Carrincton Botton read the following paper: 
PRELIMINARY NOTICE OF A NEW STUDY IN FOLK-LORE. 
(Abstract. ) 
Dr. Bolton stated that he had begun to collect and investigate 
the Terms Used in Talking to Domestic Animals. 
In controlling the movements of domestic animals by the 
voice, besides words of ordinary import, man uses a variety of 
peculiar terms, calls, and inarticulate sounds—not to include 
whistling—which vary in different localities. In driving yoked 
cattle and harnessed horses teamsters cry ‘get up,” ‘‘click 
click” (tongue against teeth), ‘‘gee,” ‘‘haw,” ‘ whoa,” 
