678 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
The turkey a, the rattlesnake c, the rabbit 1, and the ‘‘footprints” 
j,m, and q, are specially noticeable as typical characters in Algonquian 
pictography. 
Mr. P. W. Sheafer furnishes, in his Historical Map of Pennsylvania, 
Philadelphia, 1875, a sketch of a pictograph on the Susquehanna viver, 
Pennsylvania, below the dain at Safe Harbor, part of which is repro- 
duced in Fig. 1089. This appears to be purely Algonquian, and has 
more resemblance to Ojibwa characters than any other petroglyph in 
the eastern United States yet noted. 
See also Figs. 106, et seq., supra, under the heading of Pennsylvania, 
as showing excellent types of eastern Algonquian petroglyphs and 
resembling those on the Dighton rock. 
Fig. 1090 is reproduced from Schoolcraft (p), and is a copy taken in 
1851 of an inscription sculptured on a rock on the south side of Cun- 
ningham’s island, Lake Erie. Mr. Schooleraft’s explanation, given in 
great detail, is fanciful. It is perhaps only necessary to explain that 
the dotted lines are intended to divide the partially obliterated from 
the more distinct portions of the glyph. The central part is the most 
obscure. 
It is to be remarked that this petroglyph is in some respects similar 
in general style to those before given as belonging to the eastern Al- 
gonquian type, but is still more like some of the representations of the 
Dighton rock inscription, one of them being Fig. 49, supra, and others, 
which it still more closely resembles in the mode of drawing human 
figures, are in the copies of Dighton rock on PI. tty, Chap. xxi. In 
some respects this Cunningham’s island glyph occupies a typical po- 
sition intermediate between the eastern and western Algonquian. 
A good type of western Algonquian petroglyphs was discovered by 
the party of Capt. William A. Jones (b), in 1873, with an illustration 
here reproduced as Fig. 1091, in which the greater number of the char- 
acters are shown, about one-fifth real size. 
An abstract of his description is as follows: 
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Upon a nearly vertical wall of the yellow sandstones, just back of Mur- 
phy’s ranch, a number of rude figures had been chiseled, apparently at a period not 
very recent, as they had become much worn. * * * No certain clue to the con- 
nected meaning of this record was obtained, although Pinatsi attempted to explain 
it when the sketch was shown to him some days later by Mr. F. W. Bond, who copied 
the inseriptions from the rocks. The figure on the left, in the upper row, somewhat 
resembles the design commonly used to represent a shield, with the greater part of 
the ornamental fringe omitted, perhaps worn away in the inscription. We shall 
possibly be justified in regarding the whole as an attempt to record the particulars of 
a fight or battle which once occurred in this neighborhood. Pinatsi’s remarks con- 
veyed the idea to Mr. Bond that he understood the figure [the second in the upper 
line] to signify cavalry, and the six figures [three in the middle of the upper line, 
as also the three to the left of the lower line] to mean infantry, but he did not 
appear to recognize the hieroglyphs as the copy of any record with which he was 
familiar. 
Throughout the Wind river country of Wyoming many petroglyphs 
