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inches, breadtli one and a half, and thickness iive-sixteenth. Possibly it was a Phallus. 

 A sixth piece is almost semi-circular, being about five inches by two and a half. It 

 seems to be half of the original instrument, which must have had the form of an ancient 

 donbl.'-edged battle-ax. The break has been through the eye, which was bored very 

 truly, the hole being about two inches long by half an inch in diameter. 



The other bored fragment is too small to warrant much conjecture as to its shape or 

 use. 



All these pieces are of light-colored slates, but the remaining two are darker, and are 

 of very peculiar shapes. 



One might be described as a Spanish saddle with the skirts cut off. It measures three 

 and three-eighths inches by one and a half inches high. At each end a hols is bored 

 through the lower edge, as if for crupper and holster strap. 



The other piece is not quite so stout, but the pommel has been extended forward, 

 nntU it is as long as the body, and the end is turned downwards as if in rude imitation 

 of an animal's head. The same holes occur as in the last piece. This piece measures 

 four and three-quarter inches by two and a quarter. A cross section through any part 

 of either of these "saddles'' will resemble the diagram of a spherical equilateral triangle. 

 These forms are not very uncommon in collections, although I have not found any sug- 

 gestion as to their use or meaning. As many specimens have a raised circle on either 

 side of the "head," as if to represent eyes, the idea may have been derived from some 

 animal. 



This collection must, by no means, be supposed to have exhausted 1 5gan county. No 

 doubt great numbers of the relics are stiU scatterea there, and were i\ generally known 

 that you propose to keep the collection displayed by itself in the Agricultural College 

 museum, the number of specimens would be largely increased by donations. 



Eespectfully, 



Franklin C. Hill. 

 GEOLOeiCAL Museum op College of New Jersey, 

 Princeton, N. J., May 1, 1876. 



