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central part of the State. Mr. Wagman had 23 long pestles, vary- 

 ing from seven to 21 inches long. They are quite as large else- 

 where, but vary in form. 



There are very many small ones, of long cylindric pebbles, more 

 or less worked, which can hardly have been used in pounding, they 

 are so light. They may have been employed for mixing paint, or 

 for rolling pins. The short truncated forms are rare in New York, 

 nor are the well worked cylinders common. Ruder implements 

 often sufficed. 



Fig. 63 is a grey sandstone pebble, seven inches long, and much 

 enlarged at one end. It shows work and use, and was found at 

 Onondaga Lake. This, with those up to Fig. 74 inclusive, are re- 

 duced in the illustrations. Fig. 65 is a small angular pestle of 

 sandstone, flat and with parallel sides. It has been picked into 

 shape, and the top is neatly rounded. It is three and three eighths 

 inches long by one wide, and is from Seneca River, where these 

 simple forms abound. 



Fig. 67 is a well worked pestle from the vicinity of Rome, much 

 contracted at one end for a little over an inch of the length, and 

 then expanding to a thickness of two and one fourth inches. Hence 

 the edges converge in straight lines toward the smaller rounded 

 end. It is eight and three quarters inches long and angular. Near 

 the broad end is a large pit like that of a hammer stone, which is a 

 frequent feature of these angular pestles, whether broken or perfect. 



Fig. 68 is the finest example known of the carved pestles, if it 

 may be classed with them. In the illustration it is more reduced 

 than the others, being drawn half their size. It is 15 inches long, 

 and two and one half broad in the widest part of the handle, if it 

 may be so called, for it seems more of a war club than pestle. It is 

 a long pebble of a hard brown sandstone, and the tapering end, 

 where it was grasped by the hand, shows much use. The sides are 

 flat and neatly rounded at the edges, which are otherwise angular, 

 the implement being about half as thick as wide. The head is 

 boldly but neatly carved, representing an animal's head with con- 

 spicuous eyes and teeth. These are not in relief but engraved. 

 Both sides are alike, and the head is somewhat thicker than the 



