The richest locality for flint impliments is near Waterloo, Lauderdale Co., Alabama. Here, not only about the landing and in the vicinity, but at many points back from the river, the banks of what is known as Second Creek especially are evidences of flint industries on a very large scale. The fields facing south upon its banks are covered with the chips and imperfect or unfinished impliments. At no place was such a variety of beautiful material seen. Chalcedony and bright jasper, often beautifully mottled, seemed especially sought in the more elegantly finished impliments. Although there is an abundance of chert in the locality few impliments of this vulgarly common material were found. The search becomes a very fascinating pursuit for unexpected forms and unusual material are constantly found.

A short distance down the Tennessee is the town of Chickasaw in Cobert Co. This section is historical in connection with the chief by that name and is an old reservation.

Below Chickasaw on the left bank, which is here high and precipitous, are numerous mounds. These the floods are constantly exposing and fresh material is thus left exposed on the shingly flat of the immediate river valley. here one may gather quantities of broken pottery, specimens of which showing more particularly the method of ornamentation are figured one half natural size in the accompanying figure and on plate --. No. 2 in the figure shows the comparatively rare style of a jar with ears for a bail [?]. No. 4 exhibits a rather pretty arrangement of oblique bars in relief not rarely found. At Chealam's Ferry between Waterloo and Florence as well as in many other places between are famous shell heaps containing not only broken mussel shells and river univalves but Indian impliments and broken pottery. It would seem that, in many cases at least, these were rather the evidences of the rivers activity than aught else. At Cheatam's Ferry we obtained the perfect vessel shown (much reduced) in the figure. It is not certain that it came originally from the shell heaps though we were so informed.

The shell-heaps at this place constitute a bank some 60 yards long and ten feet high and contain unios anadontas and gasterpods of species like those now found in the river.

At Lorence is a very remarkable mound now partly utilized by a market gardener. Other smaller mounds lie near the rivers bank and some interesting impliments were found there. Another locality represented by our specimens is DeCatur, some distance higher up the Tennessee and above the celebrated Muscle shoals which are now being rendered navigable by governmental aid. Here we find fewer impliments and less discriminating selection of material. No. 1 of the figure shows the characteristic form of the hide dresser frequently found. This impliment was finished very smoothly and composed of a greenstone or similar rock.

The figures are offered here as illustrating the nature of Indian impliments by the most characteristic forms obtainable in the very centre of this interesting manufacturing industry. It is hoped that hey will serve a good purpose in enabling the reader to discriminate artificial from purely accidental chippings and thus help many of those interested in the local archaeology to suppliment the efforts of our State Geologist to present a valuable contribution to this important subject.

It is hoped also that these figures with no further description may prove useful to the student of North American Archaeology. They may be relied upon as accurate having been drawn from careful measurements and of the natural size and reduced by photography to two fifths their true dimensions.

No. 1, hide-dresser of greenstone, x1/2.
No. 2, fragment of urn with eyelet, x1/2.
No. 3, complete jar from Cheatam's Ferry, Ala. Much reduced.
No. 4, fragment of pottery with raised figures, x1/2.
No. 5, lance-head of flint, x1/2.

Fig. 1, Blue flint arrow-point.
Figs. 2-4, light grey flint arrow-points of various shapes.
Fig. 5, lance-head of grey flint.
Fig. 6, white and flesh-colored chalcedony arrow-point[s].
Fig. 7, blue flint arrow-point
Fig. 8, lance-head of chalcedony.
Fig. 9, light-colored flint.
Fig. 10, yellowish and red jasper lance-head.
Figs. 11-12, grey flint arrow-points.
Fig. 13, variegated flint arrow-point.
Fig. 14, grey flint arrow-point.
Fig. 15, mottled chalcedony.
Fig. 16, lance-head of chalcedony.
Fig. 17, white flint chisel.
Fig. 18, flesh-colored large arrow-point.
Fig. 19, grey flint impliment.
Fig. 20, white flint, unfinished impliment.

Fig. 21, grey and flesh-colored lance-head.
Fig. 22, white flint arrow-point.
Fig. 23, jasper arrow-point.
Fig. 24, cherty impliment.
Fig. 25, variegated and striped flint point.
Fig. 26, variegated chalcedony point.
Figs. 27-28, light grey flint.
Fig. 29, edge of pottery vessel showing crudest form or ornamental margin.
Fig. 30, perfect arrow-point of flint.
Fig. 31, a point of different pattern, yellowish jasper.
Fig. 32, a very fine lance-head of mottled grey flint.
Figs. 33-34, sections of the margins of earthen vessels showing the usual shapes.
Figs. 35-36, unusual decoration or earthen vessels consisting of relief designs.
Figs. 37-39, ordinary method of impressed decoration. Fig. 39 shows impressed marks made by a square point obliquely applied.
Fig. 40, shows an unusual notched margin.
Fig. 41, illustrates the more frequent ornamentation.
Figs. 42-43, margins of plain vessels.