200 Judge Davis’ attempt to explain the inscription on Dighton rock. 
This mode of hunting was not confined to the Canadian Indians, 
Roger Williams, writing of the Indians of New England, observes, 
** When they pursue their game, especially deer, which is the general 
“and wonderful -plenteous hunting in the country, they pursue in 
“twenty, forty, fifty, yea two or three hundred ina company, as I 
“have seen ; when they drive the woods before them.” (Hist. Coll. 
iii. 233). Hutchinson is more particular. _ ‘‘ Besides their bows,” 
says he, “ they had other devices to take their game ; sometimes by 
** double hedges a mile or two in length, and a mile wide at one end, 
“and made narrow by degrees, until they came to a gap of about 
“ six feet, against which thay lay hid to shoot the deer, as they came 
“through, in the day time; and at night they set deer traps, being 
“springs, made of young trees.” (Hist. of Mass. vol. i.) ‘This writ- 
er, as well as Charlevoix, speaks of the traps, as well as of the large in- 
closures. Perhaps these ¢raps are meant to be delineated in the large 
figure on the left of Mr. Winthrop’s copy, which contains some inte- 
rior appendages, not found in the other resembling figures. 
Iam further induced to consider this application of those figures 
to have been intended, from a consideration of the situation, com- 
pared with the places, in which it appears from Champlain, but more 
particularly from La Hontan, that such erections were made. The 
last mentioned writer, describing a similar mode of hunting, which 
he witnessed, mentions, that the inclosures were made on an ist/mits, 
between twolakes. He gives a drawing, from which I have hastily 
copied the inclosed sketch. (See Fig. 20). Its resemblance to Cham- 
plain’s figure, and to those on the rock, will be perceived. The lines 
of the fence without the triangle extend to the lakes. The advantage 
of this arrangement, to prevent the escape of the deer, is manifest. In 
the vicinity of the Dighton rock a similar situation is to be found- 
The rock is near the entrance of a neck of land, called Asonet-Neck 
