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chipped, as though intended one for an ax, the other for a chisel or 
ouge. The other is a curiously shaped stone, that has been utilized as 
a hammer or nut-cracker. The shape may be designed and not acci- 
dental. It is quite certain that the aborigines made use of stones of con- 
venient shapes, for many of the simpler household purposes; but it does 
not follow because no trace of chipping or polishing is to be detected 
upon these stones, that the stone has been accidentally so shaped, for the 
long-continued use of a broken stone would tend to wear it down and so 
obliterate the trace of the fracture. A survey of the fifty-four specimens 
constituting this “find,” together with the circumstances under which 
they were discovered, afford, I think, valuable additional evidence of the 
facts, as I believe them to be, with reference to the stone implements 
found in North America generally, which are that those found most 
deeply embedded are the older, and that there is abundant reason for 
considering that during the occupancy of the Atlantic coast of North 
America, the Indians advanced from a lower to a higher stage of stone- 
age culture. — CHARLES C. Apsort, M. D. 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL News. — Colonel Charles Whittlesey contrib- 
utes to the Scientific Monthly of Toledo, for November, 1875, articles on 
the Rock Inscriptions in Amherst, Lorain County, Ohio, and on The 
Comparison of the Indians and Mound Builders. 
A story has been going the rounds of the papers to the effect that 
pygmy graves exist in Tennessee and Kentucky. It is not new, Hay- 
wood in his Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee haying at- 
tempted to substantiate the notion. The following evidence that no 
pygmy race left their remains in this part of our country must be conclu- 
sive. Mr. S. E. Haskin, writing from Pine Falls, Tennessee, after hav- 
ing opened twenty small slab-graves in White County, says that the 
graves vary in length from fifteen inches to two feet, and in width from 
seven to fourteen inches. He sends with his letter a package of bones 
and teeth. Some of the latter are milk teeth, and in one fragment of a 
jaw-bone the second teeth are pushing out behind the milk teeth. Mr. 
W. M. Clark, employed during the last year by the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion, to investigate the same subject, and who sent the relics mentioned 
by Bessels in his paper in the Bulletin of Hayden’s Geological Survey, 
(Vol. II., No. 1), has written for the Smithsonian Report for 1875 a long 
account of his labors, in which he distinctly proves that the little slab- 
staves are either those of children or are ossuaries. But the most ex- 
haustive refutation of the whole matter is contained in Chapter ‘II. of a 
Paper, accepted for publication in a forthcoming volume of the Smith- 
sonian Contributions to Knowledge, by Dr. Joseph Jones, of New Orleans. 
The entire subject is reviewed, from Haywood’s work down, and the 
Most convincing proof brought forward from the examination of hundreds 
of graves, that the small cists are either children’s graves or ossuaries. 
In the former case the fragile jaw exhibits two sets of teeth ; in the latter 
