ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT. XXVII 



rejects and iinplemeiits used in quarryiiig' and cutting the 

 stone were obtained. 



In Juh' Mr Holmes made a trip to Ohio to assist in the 

 resurvey of several geometric earthworks at Newark and near 

 Cliillicothe. A visit was made to the great flint qviarries in 

 Licking county, between Newark and Zanesville. This well- 

 known quarry is one of the most extraordinary pieces of abo- 

 riginal work in the country, and the evidence of pitting and 

 trenching, and of the removal and working up of great bodies 

 of the ilint, are visible on all sides, the work having extended 

 over many square miles. Numerous hammerstones and large 

 bodies of the refuse of manufacture are seen. The chief prod- 

 uct of the work on the site here as elsewhere was a thin blade, 

 the blank from which various implements were to be special- 

 ized. The countless handsomely shaped and beautifully tinted 

 arrowheads, spear points, and knives scattered over Ohio and 

 the neighboring- states are derived chiefly from this site. 



When the work of resurveying the earthworks at Newark 

 and Chillicothe was finished, Mr Holmes made a journev into 

 Indian Territory to examine an ancient quarry formerh' sup- 

 posed to be a Spanish silver mine. It was reported by Mr 

 Walter P. Jenney, of the United States Geological Survey, 

 that this was really an Indian flint quarry, and the visit of Mr 

 Holmes confirmed this conclusion. Seven miles northwest of 

 Seneca, Missouri, and 2 or 3 miles west of the Indian Terri- 

 tory line, there are numerous outcrops of massive whitish 

 chert, and in places this rock has been extensively worked for 

 the purpose of securing flakable material for the manufacture 

 of implements. The pits and trenches cover an area of about 

 10 acres. They are neither so deep nor so numerous as the 

 Flint Ridge quarries. The product of this quarry was also the 

 leaf-shape blades of the usual type, the size being greater than 

 in the other similar quarries of the country Ijy reason of the 

 massive and flawless character of the stone. 



In May, 1892, Mr Holmes examined a number of extensive 

 quarries of novaculite in Arkansas, one of which had been 

 visited during the previous year. A great quarry situated on 

 the summit of a long mountain ridge at the head of Cove 



