218 B. Silliman, Jr.,.on the 
same—when this is the case, the person counts two of the game, 
and in proportion to the nearness of the poles to the mark, one 
is counted, unless, by measurement, both are found to be an 
equal distance from the stone. In this manner the players will 
keep moving most of the day, at half speed, under the violent 
heat of the sun, staking their silver ornaments, their nose, finger 
and ear-rings, their breast, arm and wrist ‘plates, and all their 
wearing apparel, except that which barely covers their middle. 
All the American Indians are much addicted to this game, which 
appears to be a task of stupid drudgery; it seems, however, to 
be of early origin, when their forefathers used diversions as sim- 
ple as their manners. The hurling stones, they use at present, 
were, from time immemorial, rubbed smooth on the rocks, and with 
prodigious labor ; they are kept with the strictest religious care, 
from one generation to another, and are exempt from being bu- 
ried with the dead. They belong to the town where they are 
used and are carefully preserved.’ —Adair, p. 402. 
_. Dr. Morton is, I think, mistaken in supposing the occurrence of 
these stones to be ecicunipsabed They certainly occur through- 
out the west, as do also, the spheroidal stones. apna which,. 
it is quite evident, were used for similar purposes. — 
It will be seen, from the above, that Dr. Blanding was right in 
his suggestion, ati these stones were =e in the anener of the 
aborigi 
Chillicothe, ‘Ohio, Jaly, 1846. gests Aes 
Arr. XXII. 7 Doonan of several Natural Wa- - 
** by B. Srtuman, Jr. 
‘f 
Tr is nearly a year since the analyses here tabulated, were 
made and published in the document, whose title is given below. 
No mention however has been made of them in this Journal, 
and we now propose, to give only the scientific results in a con- 
densed form and with the omission of much —— which was 
proper to the pages of the ‘ Report.’ 
The writer received the water in samples of two or three gal- 
lons in well stopped glass bottles, and designated by numbers 
ole It was supposed that they were all the product of a gran- 
or ain ihe ge eRe 
” oo. a. the Water Commisioner, 1845. Beaoi: City Decgeent, No. 41, 
Pa Atom ee Sees B Silliman, Jr. 
