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had been found. On this stone, however, we had the 

 characteristic Indian face, similar to the few others that 

 had been found in New England, with an attempt at an 

 artistic result in the finish of the stone and the other 

 figures carved upon it, that would certainly lead us to 

 infer that its maker, if an Indian, was of a far higher caste 

 as an artist than the distorted and childlike outlines of 

 animals and men ordinarily cut or painted by them have 

 heretofore impressed us as possible, and were it not for 

 the fact that the face is so similar to undoubted Indian 

 representations of the human face, which W 7 e have from 

 New England, he would be inclined to think that it might 

 have been the work of some other race. The position in 

 which the stone was found marked it as quite an ancient 

 piece of workmanship, and from its shape and the fact 

 of its having a hole through its centre, he believed it 

 would be classed with the singular perforated stones 

 called gorgets, found throughout the country, and always 

 more or less elaborately finished, which were supposed 

 to have been worn on the breast as an ornament or badge 



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Mr. JAMES H. EMERTON of Salem in speaking of the 



SPIDERS AT MIDDLETON 



said that while going about the shallow parts of the pond 

 in a boat we saw a large number of spiders, most of them 

 of the genus Tetragnatha, on the sedges entirely surround- 

 ed by water. They were standing head down with their 

 feet stretched out up and down the leaves and could hardly 

 be distinguished from their withered tips. One of these 

 spiders found on an alder bush overhanging the pond 

 was disturbed. It dropped and ran along on the water 

 without wetting its body until it reached a water plant. 

 These spiders are usually found near water but he had 





