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Fig. 3, a brown ferruginous sandstone pel)ble : upper, or less convex surface, 

 with a slight depression formed hj pecking: lower end broken, lines of fracture sharp. 



Fig. 4, a pecked spot on the upper surfxce : marks of usage at three or four 

 points of the margin: a chip removed fi-om below, leaving a sharp margin: greatest 

 thickness about 1| inch. 



Fig. 5, subtriangular, with marks of usage: a single, coarsely made, medial de- 

 pression : greatest thickness inch. Compare Abbott's figure 217. 



Fig. 6, an irregular ball, each extremity slightly roughened as if by pecking, or 

 by use as a hammer. Balls of stone occur in the vicinity, and among the Western 

 and Southern Indians. A sandstone specimen from a field in the vicinity of the 

 Retreat, is about 2| inch in diameter, and another of quartz is about 3 inches ; a 

 third from the Forge islands seven miles north, of a siliceous material, measures 2^ 

 inches, and is the most regular of these. More nearly spherical is a small one (If 

 inch) fi'om East Tennessee, sent to me by Mr. F. A. Stratton. Probably from the 

 absence of better material, balls of burnt clay were made in Florida, of which I have 

 fragments indicating a diameter of about two inches. 



PI. 8, Fig. 3, represents a brown sandstone muller or paint grinder, as shown by 

 the red material in crevices at the base. 



The Retreat furnished no pestles, but a neatly finished brown sandstone example 

 was found about 170 yards north of it; length lOf, diameter 1| inch. 



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■ ^ .. I. TOMAHAWKS OF HONOR. PL. 12, FIGS. 1-4. 



Parts of five examples of these light, perforated tomahawks (banner-stones, 

 sceptres, or badges of authority) were found in the Retreat (Figs. 1-4), of which two 

 of the halves (Fig. 4) belonged to one implement. 



Fig. 1, siliceous slate with minute micaceous specks : hard enough to scratch 

 glass: surface retaining some polish: ridges of fracture sharp: a small biconic per- 

 foration countersunk from each side. It retains some of the yellow clay in which it 

 was buried, its position having been pointed out to me by the boy who found it, 

 February 19, 1876, and unless his account was false, this is one of the oldest objects 

 found. What is left of the perforation for the handle, has the strife- marking the 

 boring, and some gi'itty projecting particles. 



Fig. 2, material a yellowish steatite. 



