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_ The mounds resembling animals in form, which were described by 
Mr. R. C. Taylor, (Amer. Jour. xxxiv, 88,) and again by Mr. 8. Tay- 
lor, (ibid., xli, 21,) are regarded by the gentlemen of whose labors I 
have given you a sketch, as more modern structures, perhaps even of 
the present races of Indians, but this is by no means certain. 
_ 4. Pipestone of the Ancient Pipes in the Indian Mounds; by E. G. 
Squier.— With respect to the stone of which these pipes were made, 
some light appears to be thrown upon the locality where it was prob: 
ably obtained, by Du Pratz, p. 179.. The description could not pos- 
sibly be more exact. As the book may not be at hand, I transcribe the 
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“In this journey of M. de Bourgmont, mention is only made of 
what we meet with from Fort Orleans, from which we set out, in order 
to go to the Padoncas ; wherefore I ought to speak of a thing curious 
enough to be related, and which is found on the banks of the Missouri; 
. and that is a pretty high cliff, upright from the water.’ From the mid- 
dle of the cliff juts out a mass of red stone with white spots, like por- 
____ Phyry, with this difference, that what we are spgaking of is almost so 
_ and tender like sandstone. It is covered with another sort of stone, of 
ho value; the bottom is an earth like that on other rising grounds. 
‘he Stone is easily worked, and bears the most violent fire. The In- 
dians of the country have. contrived to strike off pieces thereof with 
their arrows, and after they fall in the water plunge in for them. 
When they can procure pieces thereof large enough to make pipes, 
they fashion them with knives and awls. This pipe has a socket two 
or three inches long, and on the opposite side the figure of a hatchet; 
m the middle of all is the bort or bowl of the pipe to put tobacco in.” 
_The cliff occurs it seems on the. banks of the Missouri. The quar- 
. Nes of the Coteau des. Prairies are at a long distance from the river. 
a Further, the white spots mentioned, speckling, if 1 may use the term, 
a Né stone, do not occur in the pipestone of the prairie—at any rate in 
Rone of the specimens I have seen. And these white spots constitute 
one of the marked features.in the stone of the mound pipes. 
_ 5. Discoidal Stones ; by E. G. Squizr.—I may add to the remarks 
My paper on the Discoidal Stones, (p. 216,) that Du Pratz, p. 366, 
‘scribes the game mentioned by Adair, fully explaining the purpose 
= of the oblique-edged stones, figs. 1 and 5 of Dr. Morton. These when 
__ Tolled would describe a convolute figure. Says Du-Pratz— 
_ “The warriors practise a diversion which is called the game of the 
Pole, at which only two play ata time. Each has a pole about eight 
feet long, resembling a Roman f,and the game consists in rolling a flat 
__ Tound stone, about three inches diameter and an inch thick, with the 
ane edge somewhat sloping, and throwing the pole in sucha manner that 
