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Ohio tablets, were probably used for impressing ornamental 
figures on skins or other articles of clothing. 
Upon Tablets 12 and 13 (S and D 462, 463, 464) are discoidal 
stones, highly polished. They are made of the material C, 
described by Professor Church at page 108. Several delicately- 
carved objects of this material have been found in the neigh- 
bourhood ; but objects carved from this variety of chlorite were 
not met with in any of the other mounds opened by Squier and 
Davis, with the exception of the gorget" found in Mound 
No. 8, Mound City." About thirty to forty of these 
discs were originally placed in this mound. It has been 
suggested that they were used in playing certain games, 
analogous to those known to have been practised by the 
North American tribes. The perfect polish of the edges of 
these specimens, however, weighs against this conclusion. 
Stone discs which have probably been used in games will be 
described hereafter. The discs found in Mound No. i, *' Clark's 
Work," are circular, and vary in size and thickness. The 
largest measures three inches and three quarters in diameter, 
by one inch and one-tenth in thickness ; the smallest two 
inches and four-fifths in diameter, and nine-tenths in thick- 
ness. The others are of intermediate sizes ; a few have their 
sides slightly convex, but the sides of most are perfectly 
straight. The pieces of worked stone upon Tablets 14 to 18 
were also found in Mound No. i, Clark's Work." 
Objects found in Mound No. 2, Clark's Work." 
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■ Nos. I to 8 are chipped implements of sub-opaque flint obtained 
from this mound ; they were placed side by side, a little inclining, 
one layer resting immediately upon the other. Upwards of six 
hundred of these implements were found, but the full extent to 
which the deposit reached on all sides was not ascertained. The 
flint of which the implements are made occurs in beds belong- 
ing to the Secondary formation ; one of these, called Flint 
Ridge," exists in the counties of Muskingum and Licking, Ohio. 
It extends for many miles, and numerous pits, from which the 
flint has been taken, occur throughout its entire length ; these 
excavations are often ten or fifteen feet in depth, and occupy some 
acres in extent. It is probable that the recent as well as the 
