1886.] 335 [Haynes. 



in them are generally fashioned out of a compact, green felsite, 

 speckled with grains of milky or transparent quartz. Boulders of 

 the same material are common upon the neighboring beaches. A 

 year ago, on a visit to Mt, Kineo, Moosehead Lake, in Maine, 

 I found that the mountain is entirely made of the same kind of 

 rock. Evidently it was well known to the Indians as a source of 

 supply of the material for their implements, as was manifest from 

 the abundance of the refuse pieces to be found there. In the fields 

 at the foot of the mountain and near the hotel I found numerous 

 examples of their manufactured articles, which show by the thick 

 patina of their surface that a very long time has elapsed, since they 

 were fabricated. Some of these I have brought here for your in- 

 spection. 



Another interesting locality, from which the Indians procured 

 material of a similar character, is the so-called "Jasper Cave," in 

 Berlin, New Hampshire. This spot also. I visited a year ago, and 

 I have brought here specimens of the mineral broken from the roof 

 of the cavern. This, also, is not a true jasper, but a petrosilex, 

 striped and mottled with brownish- red and yellow. It is of a hand- 

 some appearance, breaking readily with the conchoidal fracture, 

 and is excellently adapted for making arrowheads and other fine 

 work. The "cave" was discovered only so recently as 1861, and 

 is situated on a rocky ridge about a mile and a half west of the vil- 

 lage. It is found in a vein of metamorphic, silicious rock, which 

 cuts through a mass of micaceous hornblende schist. The entrance 

 to it is just large enough to crawl through, and conducts by a nar- 

 row passage seven or eight feet long into an excavation about 

 thirty feet in length, by from six to eight feet high and wide. The 

 material here obtained was carried by the Indians about seven miles 

 up the Androscoggin River to a site in Milan Corner. There, traces 

 of their village can be found upon a broad terrace, about thirty 

 rods from the west bank of the river, on the farm of Mr. Sumner 

 Chandler. Innumerable flakes of the "ribboned Berlin Jasper" 

 fill the soil, and many implements made of it have been found 

 there. Several of these flakes I have brought here, which show 

 great changes in texture and color, occasioned by long-continued 

 atmospheric influences. 



But of all the localities in the United States from which the 

 Indians procured the material for their stone implements, by far 

 the most celebrated is the so-called "Flint Ridge," situated in 



