496 General Notes. [ August, 
The pestles exhibited are mostly short and flaring at the grinding ends, 
a form very rarely occurring in New Jersey.’ Of drills, rimmers, or 
borers, whether for drilling in stone or merely perforating leather, the 
exhibit is very large and the specimens remarkably perfect, considering 
the delicate shape of the implement. While they do not differ from 
those found in New Jersey, they are of greater excellence of workman- 
ship, as compared with those now found here; but it is not improbable 
that the longer time that the eastern specimens have been exposed to 
the rough usage of the plow, and their being found in stony fields usu- 
ally, has caused the destruction of all but the stronger and ruder speci- 
mens in New Jersey. The same remarks are applicable to the scrap- 
ers in the Ohio collection. They do not differ from those found along 
the Atlantic coast. The series of pipes exhibited is a very attractive 
feature of the collection; and here, perhaps more than elsewhere, the 
commingling of Indian and mound-builders’ relics is noticeable. Consid- 
ering all that have the outlines of animals as those of the latter peo- 
ple, the other specimens show a much greater variety of shapes than the 
writer has as yet found in New Jersey ; space will not permit us to give 
further details as to the various forms of stone implements exhibited, 
such as gorgets, charms, and animal-carvings. These differ jn no way 
from similar ones found in New Jersey, if we consider the outlines of 
animals graven on stone as the work of the mound-builders.? Taken as 
if eastern specimens of jasper, chalcedony, and quartz implements only 
are exhibited, we shall find about equal skill in flint-chipping ; 27°’ 
is only implements made from such minerals that are shown in the Ohio 
collection. It must be borne in mind, too, that a proportion, perhaps 
very large, of these beautiful spear and arrow points are the produce 10n 
of mound-builders. It is therefore an unwarrantable conclusion that the 
red Indians lost something of their skill in fabricating stone we 
d-bunaer, 
as: they wandered eastward. Leaving out of mind the moun 
is there anything to show that the Indian was ever more adyan 
culture than he was when first known to the European ? On the nen 
hand, is there not much to indicate that he was at one time far less 50 
— Cunas. C. Assort, M. D. i 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL News. — The Ninth Annual Re is 
ees of the Peabody Museum of American Archaology and Ethnology 
just issued from the Cambridge press. In addition to the usual pan 
e of the cases of the se 
In 
port of the Trust- 
1 A magnificent specimen of this form is exhibited in on 
Island display, which, though small, is very interesting. «nals ave 
' 2 It is very probable that some three or four specimens of well-drawn ani Silurian 
not genuine ; as certainly two or three of the ornamental axes of striped 
slate are very modern. 
