286 Ancie7it Catalogue of Objects of Natural History. 



72. A flesh-coloured earth from the Gay-head, where are divers col- 

 oured ochres. 



73. A light red earth, wherewith the Indians paint their faces when 

 they go to war : from the Indians from the inland parts. 



74. A reddish earth from Quinipiack, used internally for bruises. 



75. A red earth (containing iron ? ) with which the Indians paint 

 themselves. They bring it a month's travel up the country. 



80. Earth that will swim, from Connecticut River, near Thirty Mile 

 Island. 



[Nos. 76 to 79 and 81 to 91 are only different colored clays, mostly 

 from " the inland parts.^^] 



Soft Stones. 



92. A grey sandstone, like grindstone, not far from where the natu- 

 ral whetstone are found. 



97. Dark reddish stones with black talc, from Newayunck near the sea. 



Slates. 



100. A slate which the Indians scrape into water and drink, when 

 they have received any bruise. 



101. A silver-coloured slate, which calcined is of a fine gold colour. 

 104. A sort of blew slate, containing alum, from the inland parts. 

 107. A fissile stone with mica, which burnt looks like C • Another 



sort of it resembles O. 



109. A bright shining flakey mineral like burnished steel, from the 

 woods at Tantinsquese. 



115. A soft flakey greasy stone from Point Juda. 



Marble and harder Stones. 



116. Two sorts of whitish grey marble, from the uplands. 



117. White stones of the marble kind, near the Massachusetts. 



118. A stone used in building, containing granates from Connecticut 

 Island in Naraganset Bay. 



128. A blewish stone coated with a greyish green, the sides parallel, 

 from the uplands. 



140. Heavy brown glittering stone between Wachuset Hill and Con- 

 necticut. 



143. A black stone with specks of Marcasite, from Tantinsquese. 



144. Fragments of black, greenish and white stones, brought by the 

 Indians from the uplands. 



Pebbles. 



145. Round pebbles, like No. 149, from near the same place, but 

 ■where they are all of this form. When polished they are transparent 

 as crystal. 



