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others informed me that a plain cylinder-shaped pipe (?), made of hard stone of a light color, occurred with the tablet.  Both specimens were found from 4 to 5 feet below the surface during the first days' digging, which also exposed 16 human skeletons.  I could learn of no other relics having been discovered, excepting a clay vessel, said to be about the size of a gallon-measure, and taken out in fragments."  There is in the National Museum a cast of a somewhat similar object of cannel-coal, found under the surface in Ross Township, Butler County, Ohio.  The cast was sent by Mr. J. P. MacLean, and the original is figured on p. 167 of his "Mound Builders" (Cincinnati, 1879).

The specimen acquired from Mr. Nissley is, on account of its size, regular form, peculiar material, and perfect state of preservation, a most valuable addition to the archaeological collection of the National Museum.

[[underline]]J.P. MacLean, Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio.[[/underline]]- A cast of a tablet bearing incised figures somewhat analogous to those on the well-known "Cincinnati Tablet."  The original consists of compact Waverly sandstone of a bluish-gray color in the fracture.  The polished surfaces are a light-brown color, apparently produced b by the material used in polishing.  The specimen was found in a mound near Waverly, Pike County, Ohio.  It was sent by Mr. MacLean to the National Museum for the purpose of having it cast.

[[underline]] F.J. Le Moyne Hupp, Wheeling, West Virginia.-[[/underline]]An arrow-head and a spear-head from [[underline]]West Virginia[[/underline]], a polished celt