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one (figure 123) of steatite from Bradley county, Tennessee, aud another 

 (figure 124) of hematite from Loudon county, in the same state; one 

 (figure 125) of compact quartzite from a mound in Ogle county.. Illinois, 



FiQ. 125.— Cone. Fig. 126.— Cone. 



and a fourth specimen (figure 120) of granite from Kanawha valley. West 

 Virginia. The distribution is as follows: 



Hemi.spiieres. 



Hemispheric stones, like the cones, 

 can receive a name only from the form 

 and not from any known or imagined 

 use to which they could have been ap 

 plied. 



All such specimens in the collec- 

 tion, exceptone, are from Kanawha 

 valley, and of hematite; many if not 

 most of them have been ground down 

 from the nodule, and were probably 

 paint stones originally; at least, the 

 material rubbed from them was used 

 as paint while tlie maker had their 

 final form in view. One, however, has 

 been jiecked into shape and is en- 

 tirely without pobsh. In all, the base 

 is flat and varies in outline from 

 almost a circle to a narrow ellipse. 

 A section of the stone parallel to 

 either axis of the base varies from a 

 little more to a little less than a semi- 

 circle Typical forms, both from Bracken county, Kentucky, are illus- 

 trated in figure 127. 



Fig. 127.— Hemispliere.-i. 



