104 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
In Fig. 67, referring to another block mentioned in the same report, 
lying 20 feet south of the one first mentioned, there is a duplication of 
the characters before noted—human footprints, bear and turkey tracks, 
and the indication of what may be intended to represent a serpent. 
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Fic. 67. Barnesville Track rock, No. 2. 
Fig. 68, from p. 105 of the same volume, gives copies of sketches from 
the rocks near Wellsville, Ohio, with remarks as follows: 
On the Ohio side of the river, 1 mile above Wellsville, there is a large group of 
sculptures on a flat sand rock of the coal series, scarred by floating ice and flood 
wood. They are only visible in low water, as they are only 2 or 3 feet above the ex- 
treme low stage of the river. ~ * * They are made in double outline and not by 
a single deep channel. The outlines are a series of dots made with a round-pointed 
instrument, seldom more than half an inch deep. 
The upper design is a rattlesnake with a fancy head and tail. Its length is 44 feet, 
a very clumsy affair, but intended for the common yellow rattlesnake of the West. 
The head of the snake, which occupies a space 6 inches square, 
ee Co is represented in the second character, which is reduced from 
a tracing size of nature. It brings to mind the horned snake 
of the Egyptians, which was an object of worship by them. 
ext The character at the left hand of the lower line may be an 
uncouth representation of a demon or evil spirit. The right- 
Fic. 68.—Petroglyphs, hand character is probably an otter carrying a vine or string 
Wellsville, Ohio.” "an histmonth: 
It is more probable that the lines from the mouth of the animal indi- 
cate magic or supernatural power, of which many examples appear in 
this paper, as also of the device in the region of the animal’s heart, 
from which a line extends to the mouth. These characteristics connect 
the glyph with the Ojibwa drawings on bark. 
OREGON. 
Many bowlders and rock escarpments at and near the Dalles of the 
Columbia river, Oregon, are covered with incised or pecked glyphs. 
