MALLERY.] IN RHODE ISLAND. Ss 
incisions, although they are not strictly petroglyphs, are reproduced in 
Figs. 77 and 78. 
The designs are made in delicate lines, as if scratched with a sharply 
pointed piece of quartz, or possibly metal. The character don Fig. 
78 is the representation of a fish, which has been accentuated by addi- 
tional cutting since found. The characters resemble the Algonquian 
type, many of them being frequently found among those tribes living 
along the Great Lakes. 
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Fic. 78.—Glyphs in Fayette county, Pennsylvania. 
RHODE ISLAND. 
In C. C. Ratn’s Antiq. Amer. (c), is the following account: 
Portsmouth rocks.—The rocks, for there are several of them, are situated on the 
western side of the island of Rhode Island, in the town of Portsmouth, on the shore, 
about 7 miles from Newport, taking the western road, and 4 miles from Bristol 
ferry. ~ * * They are partially, if not entirely, covered by water at high tide; 
and such was the state of the tide and the lateness of the hour when the location 
was ascertained, that I was unable to make a thorough examination of them. I saw 
sufficient. however, to satisfy me that they were formerly well covered with char- 
acters, although a large portion of them have become obliterated by the action of 
air and moisture, and probably still more by the attrition of masses of stone against 
them in violent storms and gales, and by the ruthless ravages of that most destruc- 
tive power of all, the hand of man. 
Tiverton rocks [op. cit. d].—Their situation may be thus known: by tracing along 
the east side of the map of Rhode Island until you strike Tiverton, and then follow- 
ing along to the southwest extremity of that town, the Indian name Puncoteast, also 
the English names Almy and High Hill, will be seen. The inscriptions are on masses 
of Graywacke. *~ * * We can only state they were occupied with some kind of 
characters. 
These two inscriptions are pictured, op. cit., Table X11. 
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