100 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
an area from side to side of exposure of at least 100 yards. The accom- 
panying view (Fig. 61), taken from across the river, presents the wall 
of limestone rock and the position of the petroglyph, which is delineated 
in proper proportion nearly in the center of the illustration. 
Fic. 61.—Paint rock, North Carolina. 
«“ The property belongs to Mr. J. W. Chockley, who has been living in 
the vicinity for about fifteen years. He states that during this time 
the pictograph has undergone some change on account of gradual dis- 
integration or fracture of the rock. The first knowledge of the picto- 
graph, according to local tradition, dates back about sixty years, and 
no information as to its import could be learned, either from the white 
residents, who are few in number, or the straggling Cherokee Indians 
who visit the railway station at odd intervals.” 
The pictograph is peculiar in design, no animal forms being apparent 
but an indefinite number of short, straight lines at right angles to one 
another, as shown in Fig. 62. One-thirty-sixth actual size. 
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The characters are in dark red, probably a ferrous oxide, quantities 
of which are found in the neighborhood. The color appears to have 
