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Title: Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Year: 1817 (1810s)
Authors: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: (Philadelphia : The Academy)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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end and perforated at one end as for suspension. It was presum-ably worn upon the chest as a gorget (Fig. 10). Ceremonial Implements.—Two implements of the rare form known as spade-shaped were found in Mt. Royal. Both were of polished claystone.2 The smaller,with a length of 9-5 inches, had four notches or tally marks upon either side. Itwas found 18 inches below the surface, 25 feet due south of the center of themound. The larger, 116 inches in length came from about the center of the xIt is well to remember that the depth at which these implements were found does not represent thedistance from the surface at which they were originally placed. The entire mound has been under cultiva-tion, as previously stated, and the height has been materially lessened by the storms of centuries in a penin-sula having a greater rain fall than any other part of the country east of the Rockies. 2Professor Brown and T. D. Hand, Esq., have made careful examination of all stone implements fromMt. Royal.
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Fig. 9. Polished stone chiselFig. 11. Ceremonial implement (full size). (full size). Fig. 8. Polished stonechisel (full size). 24 CERTAIN SAND MOUNDS OF mound at a depth of 55 feet from the surface. The notches were uneven in num-ber, eight on one side and ten on the other, as shown in the figure (Fig. 11). Asa rule, we have found the number of these tally marks to agree on either side ofceremonial implements. Unlike so many of our aboriginal relics this implement is of a type unknownin Europe.1 It is of comparative rarity, though of wide distribution, in the UnitedStates. Mr. A. E. Douglass has one from Kentucky with notches, three on eachside of the blade which is slightly convex on the sides. It is highly polished. Itslength is 1575 inches.2 We are indebted to Thomas Wilson, Esq. for a report of two of these imple-ments, one of blue trap rock highly polished, found near Columbia, South Carolina;the other from Kentucky. The collection in the Smithsonian Institution is largelycompris

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