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Fig. 64 is a double muller. The ends are somewhat convex, as 

 is often the case, and it is finely picked around the very deep edge. 

 This is also from the Seneca River, where many forms abound. It 

 is three and one half inches wide, and two and seven eighths deep. 

 Both these figures are reduced. Fig. 122 is a muller of quite a dif- 

 ferent character. The last might have been used in a game, but this 

 probably would not have been. It is of greenstone, and has the 

 upper surface picked, polished and rounded, with a depression in the 

 center. The edge is picked, so that it forms a true circle, while the 

 under side is flat and polished. It is four inches wide by two deep. 



A fine implement comes from the Seneca River, and is a circular 

 flattened white sandstone pebble, neatly chipped around the edges, 

 and broadly depressed on both sides, this depression nearly reaching 

 the edge. The diameter is four and one half inches. Another is 

 an elliptic pebble of brown sandstone, three and three quarters 

 inches in the long diameter, and about half as thick. It is ground 

 nearly flat on one side, as though for a muller, the remainder being 

 left untouched. This is from Onondaga Lake. Another elliptical 

 sandstone pebble has been roughly ground at one end, as though to 

 change the shape, and an irregular groove has been sharply picked 

 or cut in the center. Many show this primary picking, the depres- 

 sion being made for use, and not by use. 



A broad central line of white quartz passes through a handsome 

 angular black pebble, which has been roughly ground at one end, 

 leaving it now a hammer stone, but it may have been intended for 

 the ball of a war club. Many hammer stones have double pits on 

 one or both surfaces of the elliptical or circular pebbles. One 

 from a stockade on the Seneca River is an oval brown sandstone 

 pebble, four and one quarter inches the long way. Sharp and mod- 

 erately broad cuts have been made in this, in the center, with a 

 sharp tool. 



A curious stone comes from an Indian fireplace in East Varick. 

 The Indian soon saw the advantages of compasses, and used them 

 on shell and stone. This brown sandstone pebble has a slight 

 pit in the center, from which six concentric circles were laid out, in- 

 tersected by a six-pointed star. A recent double muller of grey 



