756 Catlinite. (July, 
` bead, fashioned of the same material. In November of last year 
(1880), in the fork of the Patoiligo and Flint rivers (Southwestern 
Georgia), was obtained an oblong cylinder of catlinite, two anda 
half inches long and a half inch in diameter. It is perforated 
longitudinally, the diameter of the hole being nearly the quarter 
of an inch. Near one end occurs also a transverse perforation.” 
Dr. Charles Rau sends me a drawing of a pipe of unusual shape, 
which he mentions in his paper previously referred to.’ “Its mate- 
rial,” he writes, “ is the real cat/inite from the Céteau des Prairies, 
in Minnesota—dark red with lighter spots. The exact shape is 
shown in the accompanying drawing (see Fig. 5), which repre 
sents the object in its natural size. The pipe, 
however, is flattish, exactly half an inch thick in 
the middle. The drawing, of course, shows the 
À broader side. The cylindrical cavity for holding 
A) the smoking material measures three eighths of 
| an inch in diameter, and reaches five eighths of 
an inch downwards, when it suddenly become — 
much narrower until it joins the lateral stem 
hole. The latter is nearly three sixteenths of at 
inch in diameter. It is the smallest catlimite pipe 
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Illinois, and was sent to me eight or ten years ago, by Dr. Joba 
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J. R. Patrick, of Belleville, in the same State and county. 
Fic. 6.—From a grave, Fort Wayne, Ind. 
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1See Smithsonian Report, 1872, p. 372. 
