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subject-matter. 4th. The localities with reference to the kuown habi- 

 tat of tribes. 



GENERAL STYLE OR TYPE. 



Although the collection of pictographs, particularly of petroglyphs, is 

 uot complete, and their study, therefore, is only commenced, it is possi- 

 ble to present some of the varieties in general style and type. 



Figure 147 is presented asa type of the Eastern Algonkian pictographs. 

 It was copied by Messrs. J. Sutton Wall and William Arison, in 1882, 

 from a rock opposite Millsborough, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, 

 and is mentioned on page 20, supra, in connection with the local distri- 

 bution of petroglyphs. The locality is within the area once occupied 

 by the tribes of the Algonkian linguistic family, and there is apparent 

 a general similarity to the well-known Dighton Rock inscription. 



Mr. J. Sutton Wall, of Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, who has 

 kindly furnished the drawing of the etchings, states that the outlines of 

 figures are formed by grooves carved or cut in the rock from an inch to 

 a mere trace in depth. The footprints are carved depressions. The 

 character marked Z (near the lower left-hand corner) is a circular cavity 

 7 inches deep. The rock is sandstone, of the Waynesburg series. 



Mr. Wall has also contributed a copy ot the " Hamilton Picture Rock," 



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Fig. 148. — Algonkiau petroglypb. Hamilton Farm, West Virginia. 



of which Figure 148 is an illustration. The etchings are on a sand- 

 stone rock, on the Hamilton farm, G miles southeast from Morgantown, 

 West Virginia. The turnpike passes over the south edge of the rock. 

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