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point a squaw with sea fowl on her head, denoting, as he said, ‘that 
squaw had smashed canoe, saved beaver-skin, walked one-half moon 
all alone toward east, just same as heron wading alongshore.” Also 
that the three lines below the figure mentioned, which together re- 
semble a bird track or a trident, represent the three rivers, the East, 
West, and Middle rivers of Machias, which join not far above the 
locality. The mark having a rough resemblance to a feather, next on 
the right of this river-sign, is a fissure in the rock. Most of the figures 
of human beings and other animals are easily recognizable. 
Peckings of a character similar to those on the Picture rock at 
Clarks point, above described, were found and copied 600 feet south of 
it at high-water mark on a rock near Birch point. Others were dis- 
covered and traced on a rock on Hog island, in Holmes bay, a part of 
Machias bay. All these petroglyphs were without doubt of Abnaki 
origin, either of the Penobscot or the Passamaquoddy divisions of that 
body of Indians. The rocks lay on the common line of water com- 
munication between those divisions and were convenient as halting 
places. 
MARYLAND. 
In the Susquehanna river, about half a mile south of the state line, 
is a group of rocks, several of the most conspicuous being designated 
as the “ Bald Friars.” Near by are several mound-shaped bowlders 
of the so-called ‘ nigger-head” rock, which is reported as a dark- 
greenish chlorite schist. Upon the several bowlders are deep sculp- 
turings, apparently finished by rubbing the depression with stone, or 
wood and sand, thus leaving sharp and distinct edges to the outlines. 
Some of these figures are an inch in depth, though the greater number 
are becoming more and more eroded by the frequent freshets, and by 
the running ice during the breaking up in early spring of the frozen 
river. 
The following account is given by Prof. P. Frazer (a): 
Passing the Pennsylvania state line one reaches the southern barren serpentine 
rocks, which are in general tolerably level for a considerable distance. 
About 700 yards, or 640 meters, sonth of the line, on the river shore, are rocks which 
have been named the Bald Friars. French’s tavern is here, at the mouth of a small 
stream which empties into the Susquehanna. About 874 yards (800 meters) south 
of this tavern are a number of islands which have local names, but which are curious 
as containing inscriptions of the aborigines. 
The material of which most of these islands are composed is chlorite schist, but 
as this rock is almost always distinguished by the quartz veins which intersect it, 
so in this case some of the islands are composed of this material almost exclusively, 
which gives them a very striking white appearance. 
One of these, containing the principal inscriptions, is called Miles island. 
The figures, which covered every part of the rocks that were exposed, were ap- 
parently of historical or at least narrative purport, since they seemed to be con- 
nected. Doubtless the larger portion of the inscription has been carried away by 
the successive vicissitudes which have broken up and defaced, and in some instances 
obliterated, parts of which we find evidence of the previous existence on the islands. 
