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scatt<'ie(l ()\ur the liik-watfr province. In a lew cases llaked masses 

 have been seen weigliinfi a iiuniber of jxMinds. niucli larger than would 

 ordinarily he carried to points distant tVoni the qnarry. It is possible 

 that in cases they are derived IVoni water-transported masses. 



As would naturally be expected, a great many blades of the rouj^died- 

 ont ty])e are found in the lowland. Several caches have been re|)orted, 

 aud in plates xxix, xxx, and xxxi examples from a number of these 

 are given. Through the kindness of Colonel. W. H. Love, of Baltimore, 

 I am able to present the remarkable set of blades given in plate xxix. 

 The cache, plowed up in a garden on Frogmore creek, near Hallimore, 

 contained eight iiieces, three of them being broken. The entire blades 

 range from 7 to nearly 11 inches in length, and in form are very nariow 

 and thin, with straight sides, and with the usual broad base and acute 

 point. 



Tlie boldly llaked aud handsome blade presented in u, platc> xxx, was 

 obtained, with several others like it, by Mr IJrewer on South river, 

 Maryland, from a few inches beneath the surface of the ground in a 

 grove near his house. The two specimens b and c are of very dillerent 

 type, and the former is slightly specialized, rude notches having been 

 broken in the sides near the base. These are from a cache of about a 

 dozen pieces found near a village-site on the tloodplain of the Potomac 

 a few hundred yards below Chain bridge. 



Very nnich like tlie preceding, though ruder, were a number of blades 

 found by Colonel W. H. Love on an island at Point of Pocks, Mary- 

 land. 1 introduce these specimens here, as they clearly indicate what 

 must have been a common practice with the South mountain (piarry- 

 men — the carrying away from the quarries of hoards of bits and roughly 

 trimmed blades of rhyolite. The island has in recent years sutt'ered 

 much from the great floods that now and then devastate the valley, 

 and a few years ago an ancient village-site of considerable extent was 

 exposed by the removal to a few^ feet in depth of the surface soil. 

 Pottery ami stone implements of usual types weie found, and at one 

 point Colonel Love discovered what appeared to be a Haking shop, as 

 many bits of broken rock flakes and chipped pieces were scattered 

 about. Partly buried in the soil was a tlattish stone a foot or more 

 across and 2 or .'! inches thick, on and about which, as well as scattered 

 through the soil near by, were numerous bits of rhyolite, a dozen oi- two 

 being of the tyi)e shown in c, plate xxx, while others were ruder and 

 some were mere flakes aud fragments. Scattered about were a few 

 finished atid partially finished arrowpoints. The relation of these to 

 the scpmrish stone, the presence of hammerstones, and the fact that 

 the upper surface of the stone w as considerably roughened and picked 

 into holes by sharj) points led to the surnuse that possibly this was a 

 shop, the stone being the anvil on which the fiagments of rhyolite were 

 placed to be shattered or shaped. I am at a loss, however, to understand 

 just how such appliances could be utilized in the work of flaking. A 



