ago Mr. R. B. Averill, of Port-land, Oregon, sent me, for identification, aflat, waterworn pebble artificially notchedon one side, which he styled an IndianPlane. Having been found near the wat-ers edge on the Columbia river, and bear-ing so striking a resemblance to the extem-porized net-sinkers… … This off-hand explanation was not satis-factory to Mr. Averill, who has passedtwenty years on the Pacific slope engageda great part of that time in collecting, anddealing in, Indian relics, and he thereuponsent me a series of twenty similar stones,varying in dimensions from two to sixinches in…
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