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cylindric but six-sided pestle is from Oneida Lake. The size is 194 

 by two and one fourth inches. This is a rude article, but a well 

 wrought cylindric pestle, n£ by two and three eighths inches is 

 from the same place. A flattened one of sandstone, from Oswego 

 Falls, is 14I by two and one half inches. 



A pestle from Oswego Falls resembles Fig. 67. It is square 

 in section and compressed at the larger end, whence it tapers to the 

 smaller. The form is long and slender, being 18 inches in length by 

 two and seven eighths thick. A pyriform pestle of grey sandstone 

 is from Cross Lake, and is ground in lines toward one end. The 

 length is three and one fourth and the thickness one and one half 

 inches. 



Though the Iroquois used 'stone pestles but little, one of the sand- 

 stone pebbles utilized as pestles on the Seneca River and elsewhere 

 so freely, has been found on Indian Hill. It is iof inches long, per- 

 fectly straight most of the way on one side, and showing marks of 

 human use. A cylindrical pestle of sandstone comes from Rome, 

 and is nine inches long by two and one half thick. From the same 

 place is another, compressed near the broad end and with pits on 

 two sides. It tapers as usual, and is flattened. The ends are ham- 

 mered. It is six inches long by two inches in diameter. 



A large pestle with a carved head has been described, found on 

 the Hudson below Albany. The eyes are sunken and the lips lined. 

 The length is 26 and the diameter one and seven eighths 

 inches. One cylindric pestle is from Seneca Lake, and is made of 

 sandstone. It is nine and three quarters inches long and two and 

 five eighths thick. 



Quite curious forms occur in Tioga County. A massive squared 

 one from Newark Valley is reported as being 15 inches long and 

 five and one half thick, while other curious ones occur in the neigh- 

 borhood. One from Owego, broadly shouldered below the handle, 

 is 17^ inches long, six and one half broad at the base and four and 

 one fourth thick. The shoulder is 10 inches above the base, and 

 the weight 21 pounds. A similar one from the same place is 15 

 inches long and four inches in the greatest diameter. The handle 

 is cylindric, the base being square, and eight inches long. 



