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sites ill the vicinity. These are well represented in the collections of 

 Thomas Duwling, junior, and F. W. von Dacheuhausen, of Washington. 

 Typical mining and cutting tools are rarely found at any considerable 

 distance from the quarries. Several small chisels of the usual type, 

 shown in plate XC, were obtained from a village-site between Chain 

 bridge and Eades mill, on the northeastern side of the river; and two 

 sinker-like objects of soapstoue from this locality, one discoidal with 

 a peripheral groove and the other oblong with a groove passing along 

 the sides and across the ends, are shown in a and h, plate xcix. A 

 small, jjartially linished ring or bead is represented in c on the same 

 plate. 



THE BRYANT QUARRY" 



Following the trend of the soapstone belt northeastward from the 

 Tenley quarries, the first observed occurrence of a primitive quarry is 

 at Four Corners, on the estate of Mr Bryaut. Xear this gentleman's 

 mansion are two clusters of trees, each less than an acre in area, iu 

 which the steatite outcrops, and on account of which the land has not 

 been utilized for agricultural purposes. Considerable work has been 

 done on this site. In the first cluster of trees, 100 yards south of the 

 house, a number of shallow dei)ressions are seen marking the sites of 

 ancient pits and trenches. Numerous worked j)ieces and partially 

 shaped pots are scattered about, and a few tools have been found, 

 mostly by Mr W. II. Phillips, who kindly directed my notice to this 

 site. The material, the nature of the work, and the tools used cor- 

 respond very closely with the same features of neighboring sites. 



QUARRIES OF THE PATUXENT VALLEY' 



Numerous steatite quarries have been discovered in Montgomery and 

 Howard counties, Maryland, within the limits of the Patuxent valley. 

 Our knowledge of them is due chiefly to the enterprise of two resident 

 archeologists, Mr J. D. ]McGuire, of Ellicott, and the late Thomas Bent- 

 ley, of Sandyspring. The former gentleman has an extensive series of 

 the quai'ry utensils aud products, and has published a valuable paper 

 concerning them.' I have been permitted to make illustrations of sev- 

 eral specimens from the Bentley collection by Mrs E. P. Thomas, the 

 collector's daughter, and additional illustrations have been obtained 

 from the local collections of Mrs Charles Kirk and Miss Frances D. 

 Stabler, of Olney. 



Schooley's mill site — At Schooley's mill, on the eastern side of the 

 Patuxent and about half a mile below Snells bridge, steatite of excel- 

 lent quality outcrops iu a number of places. These outcrops have 

 recently been worked to some extent by the residents of the vicinity, 

 but traces of ancient quarrying have not been entirely obliterated. It 

 is difficult in most cases to distinguish the modern from the ancient 



'Transactions of the Anthropological Society, vol. II. 1882, p. 39. 



