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it is difficult now to determine; but besides the vast quantity 
of fragments of pottery, there are frequently to be found, long, 
cylindrical stones, with tapered and polished ends, that for want 
of a better name, perhaps, are entitled “ pestles.” They are too 
well known to need a figure given of any specimen, and their 
whole extent of variation is in length and diameter. The largest 
Fig. 84. Fig. 85. 
Natural size. Natural size. 
we have ever seen is in the possession of Dr. John W. Ward of 
Trenton, and was found near that place. It is seventeen and one- 
half inches in length, and scant eight inches in circumference. 
It is bevelled at either end and polished ; indicating that the ends 
were used in crushing corn (?) by striking blows, rather than by 
Tolling the pestle in the depression of a basin-shaped stone. Very 
many of these pestles are less uniform Fig. 86. 
i their circumferences, being nearer an 
Said cylinder in shape than truly cylin- 
drical, and again, some specimens we 
have gathered, 
have a some- 
what polished 
surface at the 
middle, showing 
that the usual 
contact was | 
there, rather 
than at the ends. 
Very many of these ‘t pestles ” are of diminutive size, varying 
ao = seven inches, and of diameter in proportion. ‘Their 
ay indicated by the occas onal presence of a shallow 
Hoyi a circular flat stone, in the centre of which isa depres- 
n that has been gradually worn by the constant rubbing action 
