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more ancient races worked these quarries, just as they resorted 
to the celebrated quarry of the red-pipe-stone of the " Coteau 
des Prairies." 
The flint objects, Nos. i to 8, closely resemble in form 
some of the flint implements found in the " drift " of England 
and France. No. 9 isadiscoidal flint implement, from the gravel 
at Milford Hill, near Salisbury ; it is very like the hornstone disc 
No. 6, from Ohio. 
Flint discs, in type resembling these specimens, appear to have 
been used in Europe during both the Palaeolithic and the 
Neolithic periods ; and similar discs of quartzite have been 
found at Clermont, near Toulouse, France, associated with 
remains of Felis speloea,Elephas primigenius, Rhinoceros tichorhinuSy 
and Megaceros Hihernicus. 
The ovoi'd flint implement, No. 5, agrees in type with 
No. 10, which was found in the drift at St. Acheul, valley of the 
Somme, France. Implements of drift-like types do not appear 
to occur very abundantly in North America, and those that 
have been found are either discs, heart-shaped, or of the oval 
and ovoi'd forms ; the pear-shaped and shoe-shaped types, 
met with in the drift of north-western Europe, seem not to 
have been found hitherto in the New World. 
Objects found in Mound No. 5. " Clark's Work." 
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No. 26 is a marine shell (Cassis), found in this mound. 
Neither this nor the shell Pyrula perversa, No. 25, could have 
been obtained nearer than the Gulf of Mexico. The inner 
whorls and columella have been removed from No. 26, perhaps 
to adapt it for use as a vessel ; similar shells have been found 
in the vicinity of Nashville, from which the inner whorls have 
been removed so as to give place to an idol of clay. In the 
account given by Dr. Troost of some ancient remains found by 
him in Tennessee, he mentions a large shell of Cassis flammea, 
the interior whorls and columella of which were all removed, 
so that nothing but the exterior shell remains. This is open 
in front, and in it was placed a rudely shaped idol in the form 
of a kneeling human figure, made of clay mixed with pounded 
shells. This shell, like Nos. 25 and 26, must have been 
obtained from the tropics. It was ploughed up in the Sequatchy 
valley. 
