512 ARCHEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS—II [BTH. ANN. 44 
coloration. Most of it is of coarse grain, uncertain fracture, diffi- 
cult to flake or chip with accuracy, and consequently can not be 
wrought into delicate or artistic shapes. 
Fut iw Licxrne Country, Ouro 
Flint Ridge—The quarries at this place are so well known, through 
the publication of numerous papers relating to them, that no descrip- 
tion need be given here. 
Complete information regarding the locality will be found in the 
Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1884; the Archeological 
History of Ohio (Fowke); Primitive Man in Ohio (Moorehead) ; 
and a special paper by W. C. Mills, published by the Ohio Arche- 
ological and Historical Society, Columbus. 
Furt wn Perry Country, Onto 
Within the corporate limits of the town of New Lexington are two 
small deposits of flint, one of them northwest, the other northeast 
of the courthouse. The latter. has been much quarried for road 
metal; there were a few small shallow depressions, apparently aborig- 
mal excavations, but these have been obliterated. The flint is from 
4 to 6 feet in thickness, the variation being due to the unevenness 
of the sea bottom on which it was deposited, the top of the flint 
stratum being almost uniform in level. The stratification is irregu- 
lar; in places there may be a foot or even more of solid compact 
stone; while within a short distance it will split into numerous 
seams. 
The deposit to the northwest was quarried to a limited extent by 
the aborigines. The largest pit is 8 feet in depth and 28 or 30 feet 
in diameter, both measurements from the encircling ridge of earth 
thrown out in uncovering the stone. There are but few of these pits, 
all of them being contained in an area of about one-third of an acre. 
To judge from what can be seen of the stone in the various cuts 
for streets, railroads, and quarry supplies, not more than 1 per cent 
of it is available for any other implements than arrowheads. It is 
seldom that a piece can be found free from included earthy matter, 
seams, cracks, crystals, or fossils, and large enough to be worked into 
a blade as much as 3 inches long. The unweathered portions of the 
stone vary greatly in both color and texture. Some of it is blue with 
clear chalcedony intermixed. Some is a glossy, velvety, smooth black. 
Some is blue-black with veins of crystal or chalcedony. Some is 
gray or drab. Much of it is brown, yellow, or grayish-black from 
oxidation or from carbonate of iron. In most of it iron, fossils, sand, 
or lime has weathered out, leaving the stone porous or spongy. 
