MALLERY. | BIG INDIAN ROCK, PENNSYLVANIA. 107 
The rock known as ‘Big Indian rock” is in the Susquehanna river, 
three-fourths of a mile below the mouth of Conestoga creek and about 
400 yards from the eastern bank of the Susquehanna. It is one of 
many, but larger than any other in the immediate vicinity, measur- 
ing about 60 feet in length, 30 feet in width, and an average height of 
about 20 feet. The upper surface is uneven, though smoothly worn, 
and upon this are pecked the characters, shown in Fig. 70. 
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Fic. 70.—Big Indian rock, Pennsylvania. 
The characters, through exposure to the elements, are becoming 
rather indistinct, though a few of them are pecked so deep that they 
still present a depression of from one-fourth to one-half an inch in 
depth. The most conspicuous objects consist of human figures, thun- 
der birds, and animals resembling the panther. 
“Vittle Indian rock” is also situated in the Susquehanna river, one- 
fourth of a mile from the eastern bank and a like distance below the 
mouth of Conestoga creek. This rock, also of hard micaceous schist, 
is not so large as the one above mentioned, but bears more interesting 
characters, the most conspicuous being representations of the thunder 
bird, serpents, deer and bird tracks, ete. 
Prof. Persifor Frazer, jr., (b) remarks upon the gradual obliteration 
of these pictographs, and adds: 
In addition to these causes of obliteration it is a pity to have to record another, 
which is the vandalism of some visitors to the locality who have thought itan excel- 
