CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 188 
lower left hand side has scaled off. The dotted lines show where the stone has 
come off in thin flakes. The design is apparent on the stone in these places, but 
it lacks distinctness. 
Some years ago, a colored man, ploughing near one of the larger mounds at 
Moundville, found a superb hatchet and handle carved from a solid mass, probably 
amphibolite," and highly polished. This hatchet (Fig. 6) was procured by Mr. С. 
5. Prince, from whom it was obtained by the Academy of Natural Sciences. 
Еа. 4.—Dise of stone. Moundville. (Diameter 8.75 inches.) 
The hatchet, 11.6 inches in length, with a neatly made ring at the end of the 
handle (not clearly shown in the reproduction), resembles, to a certain extent, the 
one found by Dr. Joseph Jones, near Nashville, Tenn., and described and figured 
1 All determinations of rock in this paper and in the three which follow it, have been made by 
Dr. E. Goldsmith, of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. As it has not been deemed 
advisable to mutilate specimens for analysis and for microscopical examination, Doctor Goldsmith has 
not always been able to identify materials with the exactness he otherwise could 
