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Fig. 165 may be simply a long perforated sinker, of light greenish 

 slate, but the terminal perforations suggest both the bar amulets 

 and the perforated boat stones, to neither of which does it belong. 

 There is a slight groove toward one end, and depressions around 

 the holes. The general section would be three-sided. It comes 

 from the Seneca River. 



Fig. 214 is imperforated, nor has it a nipple. It expands greatly 

 in the center, where it is over one and one fourth inches wide, while 

 the terminal widths are much less than an inch. It is five and one 

 eighth inches long, and seven eighths of an inch high in the center. 

 The material is brown slate, and it comes from Hannibal. An un- 

 finished one of granite, almost pyramidal and six and one half inches 

 long, is from Oswego Falls. Several come from Cayuga County, 

 and one from Troy has two perforations, and is five and one eighth 

 inches long and one inch high. A fine one of dark olive slate, with 

 nearly straight base and convex upper surface, comes from Canajo- 

 harie. There are two perforations from the base, which is also 

 grooved. It is five and one eighth inches long, one and one fourth 

 high, and one and one eighth wide. One of slate, from Tioga 

 County, has a straight base and a rounded upper surface. It is 

 three and one fourth inches long, and has two perforations, the 

 specific number. 



True boat stones occur throughout the northern States, and 

 many good examples are found in Ohio. New York has probably 

 as many forms as any. They are found along Lake Champlain, 

 and at several places on the Hudson River, as well as in the localities 

 already mentioned. 



CUPS AND MORTARS 



Small cups are occasionally found, probably used for holding 

 paint, and usually having one side elevated. Mortars are often but 

 depressions in bowlders or rocks, and these are found in all parts 

 of New York, though most frequent near tidal waters. Some of 

 those thus classed, however, are simply hollows made in sharpening 

 tools. Of this character is one on Indian Hill, the Onondaga site 

 of 1654. Several polished depressions will be found in a large 

 bowlder there. Mortars, however, were often portable. One from 



