SOME RELICS OF THE INDIANS OF VERMONT. 13 
former vary in shape, some being rounded on each side and some 
angular; some are grooved throughout the whole length, and 
some only for a short distance. They are from six inches to a 
foot in length, and are usually one and one-half inches to two 
inches broad. The chisels are smaller and less common. Both 
are made of various kinds of stone, some being of trap, others 
of granite or syenite, while others are of taleose and mica-schist, 
and could be of use only in working quite soft substances, or in 
dressing skins. 
Axes and hatchets of various kinds are found, but not very 
often. Ornaments or amulets of stone, disc-shaped, with a hole in 
the centre, are sometimes met with. They are an inch or so in 
diameter, and one-fourth of an inch thick. 
A very pretty pipe is in the Museum of the University at Bur- 
lington, and was dug up not far from Burlington. It is shaped 
like a common clay pipe, but the bowl is smaller and thicker, and 
the stem shorter. It is wrought from ‘a piece of dark clouded 
gypsum, and is nicely polished. The stem is two and two-fifths 
inches long, and one-third of an inch thick at the end, and three- 
fourths of an inch thick next the bowl. The sides are somewhat 
angular, and the bore quite large, being one-fifth ‘of an inch in 
diameter at thé end, and growing very gradually smaller towards 
the bowl. The bowl is one and one-half inches high and nine- 
tenths of an inch in diameter. It is encircled by two rows of ob- 
long cavities, about one-fourth of an inch broad, and from three- 
tenths to one-half of an inch long, and one-eighth of an inch deep, 
no two being exactly alike. There are seven of these in the lower 
row and eight in the upper,.and they were probably inlaid with 
some ornamental substance. 
Pots of various sizes and shapes have been found ; one holding 
twenty quarts. All these are made of burnt clay. There are a 
few articles of Indian workmanship in the Museum of the Uni- 
versity of Vermont which are peculiar and worthy of special 
- notice. One of the most interesting of these is the jar (Fig. 1). 
This curious relic was found about six miles from Burlington, in 
the town of Colchester, in 1825. It was found some distance 
below the surface and covered by a stone over which a root of a 
own; this tree was quite decayed, and the stone 
itself considerably decomposed. The jar is made of a kind of 
clay made very coarse by small bits of mica, quartz, an and felspar, 
