108 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
lant practical joke to cut spurious figures alongside of and sometimes over those 
made by the Indians. It is not unlikely, too, that the “fish pots” here, as in the 
case of the Bald Friar’s inscriptions, a few miles below the Maryland line, may have 
been constructed in great part out of fragments of rock containing these hieroglyph- 
ies, so that the parts of the connected story which they relate are separated and the 
record thus destroyed. 
Fic. 71.—Little Indian rock, Pennsylvania. 
Others have cut their initials or full names in these rocks, thus for an obscure 
record whose unriddling would award the antiquarian, substituting one, the correct 
deciphering of which leads to obscurity itself. 
At McCalls ferry, on the Susquehanna river, in Lancaster county, 
and on the right shore near the water’s edge, is a gray gneissoid flat 
rock, bearing petroglyphs that have been pecked upon the surface. 
It is irregular in shape, measuring about 34 by 4 feet in superficial 
area, upon which is a circle covering nearly the entire surface, in the 
middle of which is a smaller circle with a central point. On one side 
of the inner space, between the outer and inner circles, are a number of 
characters resembling human figures and others of unintelligible form. 
The petroglyph is represented in Fig. 72. 
Fig. 72.—Petroglyph at MeCalls ferry, Pennsylvania. 
The resemblance between these drawings and those on Dighton rock 
is to be noted, as well as that between both of them and some in Ohio. 
All those localities are within the area formerly occupied by tribes of 
the Algonquian stock. 
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