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owing tc some small defect, it was abandoned. About twelve 3-ears 

 subsequent to that time, it was split into rails, and laid up into 

 fence. Only a few of the rails now remain, and it was with some 

 trouble that a few pieces were obtained which bear the marks of 

 the axes of those who scored and partly hewed the stick; one of 

 which is seen on the piece presented. James H. Sill. 



171. Two Indian arrowheads, made of greasy quartz ; one ditto, made 



of yellow jasper : from Suffolk county. E. T. Smith. 



172. A Stone axe, eleven inches in length. This relic was found several 



feet below the surface, in digging a well at Poughkeepsie, 

 Dutchess county, A. Hever Brown. 



173. A Military cap plate of the Revolution. Design : The American 



Eagle with extended wings, surmounted by thirteen stars. 

 Motto : "Unity is Strength," 1776. 



Mrs. Mercy Valentine. 



174. An Ancient millstone, plowed up in the town of Conesville, Scho- 



harie county, in the summer of 1850. The stone is graywacke, 

 twenty inches in diameter and two inches thick, and was used 

 in the early settlement of the country in a hand-mill. 



Abraham J. Warner. 



175. A Camp knife, dug up by James Stewart, esquire, of Guy Park in 



the town of Amsterdam, Montgomery county, formerly the 

 residence of Sir Guy Johnson of tory memory in the days of 

 the revolution, and is a relic of those times. 



M. S. Goodale. 



170. A Chisel and a Deerskin-dresser, made of greenstone : found hi 

 Chcrryvalley, Ashtabula county, Ohio. Theodore Mills. 



177. A Stone axe and a AVhite chert arrowhead : found in Cherry- 



valley (Ohio). Theodore Mills. 



178. A Stone chisel, and also two regularly rounded pebbles : found in 



the town of Bethlehem, Albany county. Peter G. Bradt. 



179. An Iron key, taken from the Halls of Montezuma, Mexico, on the 



twelfth day of June 1848, and which originally belonged to the 

 palace garden gate. W. A. Hotchkiss. 



180. A Clay drinking cup, in the form of a duck, from the Sandwich 



islands ; also a headdress made of seashells. 



Benjamin Knower. 



