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EEPOKT OP NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. 



No. 316 is yellow-brown ferruginous quartz, from Tennessee; 117, 

 brown ferruginous quartz, from Tennessee ; 118, dark greenstone, from 

 a mound in Illinois. In some specimens the cavities on the sides are 

 carried deeper than in others, and their center marked by a perforation. 

 Nos. 119 and 120 are quartzite, from Ohio. Other specimens are with- 

 out the dish-like cavity. No. 12 L is quartzite, from Georgia. Some 

 specimens, similar in every other appearance, are diminutive, scarcely 

 more than an inch in diameter. No. 122 is argillite, from Pennsylvania; 

 and curious to remark, relics presenting the same appearance have 

 been made of broken clay vessels, which, except tbe hole, resemble the 

 spiudlewhorl. The writer found a specimen of this kind in a prehistoric 

 workshop in Brittany, France. It has been suggested that they were 

 used as paint cups, and possibly this may be true. 



Pig. 27. 



DlSCOIDAL STONKS (J). 



When in Italy I remarked a game which had a great similarity to 

 the chungkee of the Indians. In 1889 I wrote to my friend, E. Mancini, 

 for a description, whicli he gave in the following : 



LETTER FROM R. MANCINI, ORVIETO, ITALY, TO MR. WILSON. 



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The play, made by rolliug discs at a mark, which you saw in one of the streets out- 

 side the city of Orvieto, has several names. It is called Euzzola, or Ruzzoletta when 

 played by the children with small discs; but if the play be by adults and with large 

 discs it is called Euzzolone, or sometimes Giuoco del Formaggio, or Play of the 

 Cheese, because when played by the peasants or shepherds they use their discs of 



