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[[underlined]]G.B.Frazar, Mount Auburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.[[/underlined]]---Collection from shell-heaps at Old Enterprise, Mellonville, Lake Munroe, Lake Harney, and Spear's Landing, St.John's River, Florida:  32 shell adzes, 14 fragments of do., 1 shell chisel or gouge, 1 shell sinker, 1 shell bead, 23 fragments of pottery, 3 fragments of potstone vessels, 1 grinding stone, 2 worked prongs of antlers, 3 bears teeth, and 1 small piece of galena.  A very good collection.

[[underlined]]Ernest C.Brown, Warren, Jo Daviess County, Illinois.---[[/underlined]] Collection from mounds and their vicinity in Jo Daviess County:  1 large digging tool, leaf-shaped implements, scrapers, perforators, arrow and spear-heads, polished celts, grooved axes, 1 pierced stone object of unknown use, 1 fragment of platform-pipe, and fragments of pottery.  I take from Mr Brown's letter the following:  "The mounds are situaged on a bluff about 100 feet high.  So far as opened they appear to be sepulchral, the bodies lying with the heads to the south.  They were all encased in Trenton limestone slabs of about 8 inches in thickness and from 2 to 5 feet long.^[["]]  Relics are very rare.

[[underlined]]W.C.Brown, Liverpool, Perry County, Pennsylvania.---[[/underlined]]Collection from Perry County:  Rude chipped implements, arrow-heads, rude celts, 1 pestle, notched sinkers, and fragments of pottery.

[[underlined]]G.W.Emrich, Northumberland, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.---[[/underlined]] Collection from Northumberland County:  Flakes, rude and leaf-shaped implements, scrapers, perforators, cutting tools, arrow-heads, rude celts, unfinished grooved axe, rude grooved axes, pestles, notched sinkers, fragments of ceremonial weapons, and 1 carved stone pipe.  The pestles and grooved axes are good examples of aboriginal methods in working stone:  being