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eighths wide. The ends are rounded, and the orifice is a little over 

 half an inch in diameter, contracting slightly in the interior of the 

 stone. There are no village sites near, and but few small camps. 

 Fig. 203 is elliptical every way, but roundly pointed at each end. It 

 comes from Dresden, on Seneca Lake, and there is a fault in the 

 green striped slate of which it is made. It is three and three eighths 

 wide, and one and one half inches deep. 



Fig. 204 is a straight pick form, a being the profile, and b the 

 basal view. The base is longitudinally grooved, and the gradual 

 expansion makes a central ridge unnecessary. It is of light olive 

 green slate, having a depth of three quarters of an inch, and a width 

 of three inches. The orifice is three quarers of an inch. This is 

 from Oneida Lake. 



Fig. 205 is another unusual form of light green striped slate, 

 with an elliptical perforation, as in Fig. 191, but not so narrow. 

 Both ends are grooved, and the lateral edges are almost sharp. It 

 is two and one half inches wide and one and one half deep. The 

 thickness is three quarters of an inch. A banner stone of bluish 

 drab slate, from the Seneca River, is a little broken, and approaches 

 the heart shape. The perforation is half an inch in diameter, but 

 enlarges within, an unusual feature. This article is three and three 

 fourths inches deep and three and one half wide. Another, of sim- 

 ilar shape and found some miles from the same river, is two and one 

 half inches deep and two and one eighth wide. This is made of an 

 olive and mottled slate, the perforation in which averages over half 

 an inch wide. Another of olive slate found near the last, has 

 straighter and nearly parallel sides. There is the usual expansion 

 in the center, and it is nearly three inches deep by two and one 

 quarter wide. The perforation is about half an inch. Still another 

 approaching the heart shape is from the head of Oneida Lake, on the 

 north side. It is of bluish olive slate, three and one quarter deep 

 and two and three quarters inches wide, and thickened in the center. 

 There are lines across the edges. The orifice is over half an inch, 

 and drilling coarse. Another of similar form comes from the west 

 end of the same lake, and is of a dark mottled slate, three inches 

 deep and three and one fourth wide. As a rule the perforation 



