oxen or 
of the American Aborigines. — 13 
that I have observed in this state, excepting these, do not amount 
to as many as are found on the Wateree within the distance of 
twenty four miles up and down the river, between Lancaster and 
Sumpter districts. The lowest down is called aes mound, 
the highest up, Harrison’s.” 
"he discoidal stones,” adds Dr. Blanding, “were found at 
the foot of the different mounds, not in them. They seemed to 
be left, where they were no doubt used, on the play grounds.” 
The disks are from an inch and a half to six inches in diam- 
eter, and iene some varieties in other respects. 
4 
Fig. 1 represents a profile of the simplest form and at the 
same time the smallest size of these stones, being in diameter 
about an inch and three quarters. .'The upper and under surfaces 
are nearly plane, with angular edges and oblique margin, but with- 
out concavity or perforation. 
ig. 2. A similar form, slightly concave on each surface. 
Fig. 3. A large disk of white quartz, measuring five inches in 
diameter and an inch and three fourths in thickness. The mar- 
gin is rounded, and both surfaces are deeply concave though im- 
perforate... 
Fig. 4 is another initia four inches in diameter, deeply con- 
eave from the margin to the center, with a central perforation. 
The margin itself is slightly convex. The concave surface is 
marked by two sets of superficial grooved lines, which meet some- 
thing in the form of a bird-track.. ‘This disk is made of a light- 
~ brown ferruginous quartz. 
Fig. 5 is a profile view of a solid lenticular stone, much more 
convex on the one side than the other, formed of hard syenitic 
rock. 
