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a little flattened. Many more might be described, but they present 

 no very different features. The largest of these is three and three 

 quarters by two and one quarter inches, and is of flesh colored 

 granite. 



Among the grooved pebbles is a long one, closely resembling 

 one from Wyoming. It is grooved all around from end to end, the 

 length being three and three quarters and the width one and three 

 eighths inches. This is classed among the sinkers, which usually 

 have the groove around the shorter circumference in New York. 



A figure of a perforated ball of polished yellow granite was 

 omitted from some doubt of its character. It was obtained near 

 Cross Lake some years ago, and two and one eighth inches in 

 diameter by one and five eighths inches. The perforation is coun- 

 tersunk at each end, the general diameter is a quarter of an inch, and 

 it is neatly drilled. In 1897, however, Mr. A. G. Richmond received 

 one of these from Otsego County, of which he says, ' This is a 

 smooth stone, about two and one half inches long, one and three 

 quarters in diameter, and with a hole lengthwise a quarter of an 

 inch in diameter. It is something so unusual for this part of the 

 country that I desire to call attention to it. It was a surface find 

 in that county.' The two articles so closely correspond in size and 

 character that they may be classed definitely among New York 

 articles; the principal difference being that the first mentioned is 

 drilled through the short diameter. Mr. Richmond would place 

 them with the South American bolas, but the perforation of so hard 

 a stone would suggest some other use. The figure is so simple as 

 to be readily understood without illustration. 



ORNAMENTS 



For convenience in arranging illustrations, some of the small 

 ornaments are not placed in consecutive order, but will be found at 

 intervals among the rest. Early stone ornaments, aside from those 

 classed as amulets, gorgets and ceremonial stones, were usually 

 of slate, soapstone and sandstone, and were not many in number. 

 Other things were more available and made more show. A little 

 before A. D. 1700, catlinite, or red pipestone, was brought east in 



