1885.] Ancient Rock Inscriptions on the Lake of the Woods. 657 
inscriptions (Fig. 1) are not, cut into the rock but are painted 
-with ochre, which is much faded in places. The surface upon 
which the characters are inscribed forms an overhanging wall 
protected from the rain, part of which has fallen down, cutting 
off the inscription sharply at 6. The characters are represented 
in their relative positions as they appear on the rock surface, 
Fic. 1.—Indian Inscriptions. 
reduced about ten times. Two of the forms, viz., 1 and 4, have 
a sufficiently strong resemblance to 16 and 9 respectively of 
Plate x1x, although one is in ochre and the other carved into the 
. rock, to lead to the belief that the two inscriptions are closely 
related in authorship. The Indians of the present day have no 
traditions about these inscriptions beyond the supposition that 
they must have been made by the “ old’ people” long ago. 
