20 NEW-YORK STATE COLLECTION. 



36. Stone deerskin-dresser ; and, 



37. A Fragment of a pipe (as is supposed). Found near Fowlerville 



bridge, in the town of Avon, on a farm of W. W. Wadsworth, 

 after the first ploughing of a new field, about one mile from the 

 river bed, and three and a half miles in a southwesterly direction 

 from Avon springs. 



3S. A Bone fish-spear, found on the Hurlburt farm in Avon, four miles 

 in a northeast direction from the springs, at a place known to 

 the inhbitants as Fort Hill : it -was unquestionably a Jesuit 

 station. The place was destroyed by Denonville in 1687. Corn, 

 in a charred state, is found commingled with the subsoil. Bone 

 crosses have been discovered, and rosaries ; also many articles 

 used by the French traders in Indian traffic. 



39. A Stone implement, with a handle like a mason's smoothing trowel. 



This implement was found near a spring on the farm of Ira 

 Pierson in the town of Avon, about two miles in a southeast 

 direction from the village of West- Avon. 



Mr. John Gebhard junior states, that "this unique relic is 

 made of the steatitic pyroxene of Prof. Lewis C. Beck (rensse- 

 laerite of Dr. Emmons); and from its strong resemblance to the 

 specimens of that mineral from Edwards, St. Lawrence county, 

 the material from which it is constructed is undoubtedly from 

 that locality. It was.probably used in dressing deerskins, and for 

 smoothing and softening the seams in manufacturing moccasins 

 and other articles made from skins. It evidently belongs to the 

 ante-columbian period." 



40. Various beads. These beads were found in various places in the 



valley of the Genesee : at the Jesuit stations previously refer- 

 red to ; the old indian burial-place, near the red bridge that 

 crosses the river one mile west of West- Avon village ; and a 

 few were found near Fort Niagara, and in the valley of the 

 Susquehannah. 



41. Stone deerskin-dresser. Found on the farm of Francis M. Cutler, 



in West-Avon. 



42. Stone deerskin-dresser. Found on the Wilbur farm. 



FROM E. G. SQUIER, OF NEW-YORK. 

 43. Flint arrowheads From Cayuga county, 7 specimens ; Monroe 

 county, 2 ; Livonia, Livingston county, 2 ; vicinity of Buffalo, 

 Eric county, 1 ; Ellisburgh, Jefferson county, 1 ; and 4 from 

 localities not named. 



