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PECKED, GROUND AXD POLISHED STOXE. 



is ornamented with a border of dotted triangles (Fig. 205, trap rock, Con 

 necticut). Another smaller specimen of kindred character, which is made 

 of a flat sandstone pebble of oval outline, bears incised ornamental lines 

 (Fig. 200, Rhode Island). Small oval or round pebbles of a compressed 

 form, pierced with a hole for suspension, but otherwise left in their natural 



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ORNAMENTS, ETC. 



state, are not uncommon (Fig. 207, Pennsylvania). A very remarkable 

 small object, designed for suspension, consists of a shell of brown hematite 

 of rather irregular outline, and shows no other modifications by art than 

 a perforation at one extremity, and nine distinct incisions or notches at 

 the other (Fig. 208, Virginia). These notches may have a significance, 



