I02 NATURE STUDY. 



The materials of which they are composed are as varied 

 as those of the other artifacts found in this vicinity, and 

 adds to the probability that the Indian village at Amoskeag 

 Falls was a mart where such goods as the aborigines used 

 and traded were brought here for barter. One of the lar' 

 ger drills is quartzite, several are composed of varieties of 

 flint or chert ; the others are made of the harder igneous 

 rocks, red and black. 



Of the largest five represented, at least two must have 

 been used considerably, for evidences of wear are plain. 

 Some of the smaller ones are also worn. The latter were 

 used in perforating the various pendants and charm stones 

 and whenever small holes were required, the former might 

 have been used in making the bowls of pipes in whatever 

 rock was soft enough for the purpose. 



Wings. 



BY DOROTHY MAY. 



" Wings ! wings ! to sweep 

 O'er mountain high and valley deep. 



Wings ! that my heart may rest 

 In the radiant morning's breast." 



— Ruckert. 



It is the instinctive longing, the universal cry of all ani- 

 mate nature, to rise, to fly ! But of all the myriad forms 

 of life, to birds alone has it been vouchsafed by the Creator 

 " to sweep o'er mountain high and and valley deep," and 

 the weakest bird having wings can look down with contempt 

 on the king of beasts without them. The lowest forms of 

 bird life, in which the wings are rudimentary, represented 

 by the penguins, can scarcely be called birds. In them, 

 Nature appears to be undecided whether to make a bird or 

 a fish, and indeed their suggested wings act somewhat as 



