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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



plete account of such specimens of the class under consideration 

 as have been obtained up to the present time. All the specimens 

 figured are in the collection of the University of Vermont, and 

 all, except Fig. 11, are given of full size. 



Our simplest pipes and it is difficult to imagine a simpler 

 form are represented by Fig. 1. This is merely a rounded bit 

 of steatite of a grayish color, fairly well shaped and smoothly 

 finished. The excavation is of the same general form as the out- 

 side and is very well done. At the top it is rather more than 

 half an inch across. As the figure shows, the opening for the 

 stem is a little below the middle of one side. It is about a fourth 

 of an inch in diameter on the outside, and slopes upward, so that 

 the bowl hung obliquely on the stem. Such a pipe as this must 

 have had some sort of a stem, either a bit of hollow reed, a twig 

 with the pith removed, or the wing bone of a bird. 



In Fig. 2 we see a somewhat more elaborate specimen, though 

 the material is very much the same. As the line showing the 

 excavation indicates, the stem, if there was one, entered at the 

 bottom. It is also noticeable that the inside does not at all cor- 



Fio. 4. 



FIG. 5. 



respond with the outside, but is more regular. About the upper 

 margin there is a rather weak attempt at decoration in rudely 

 incised lines around the bowl and oblique lines between. This 

 pipe is well polished. It is two inches and a quarter long and 

 seven eighths of an inch in diameter at the top. 



No other specimen from this region is in any respect like that 

 shown in Fig. 3. As may be readily seen in the figure, there are 

 two bowls of nearly equal size. The separation of the bowls is, 



