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known as Cattinite in honor of "George Cattin" who was probably the first white man who visited the quarry. This stone is a variety of steatite so called and is and has been quarried only in Southwestern Minnesota at a place called Pipe Stone. in the county of the same name. we give a map of the region made from the authors notes and which we believe to be in the main a correct drawing of this region. Our author says that the Dakotas in whose country it is say that this stone was given them by the Great Spirit for their pipes and for nothing else and that it is strictly forbidden to use it for other purposes.

  The method used by the Dakota as described by Mr Cattin differs from that shown in our out of the drill but we are led to believe that this drill is probably the most correct Cattlin says that the bowl is shaped out with a knife and that the hole is drilled into the bowl with a hard strike of the [crossed out:  proper size] proper size "with a quantity of sharp sand. and water kept constantly in the hole."  this does not seem a likely method as it partakes to [sic] much of the white man's ways. and we are inclined to doubt it. and lay more reliance upon the chirt drill. as a means of boring than the stick and sharp sand.

The sacred Pipe Stone Quarry the fame of which has reached all the indian tribes is in the South western corner of the State of Minnesota. Mr. Cattin in his Second Volume of "Cattin's Eight Years" gives a sketchy picture of the quarry as he saw it in AD 1886. It is a rather fantastic sketch and conveys an erronius idea of the locality. The view he depicts is taken from the north west looking toward the South east. In this picture the back ground is cut off by a wall of rock which appears to be of great height and is described as being "twenty five and thirty feet in elevation". We measured the cliff at the face and found it sixteen feet and this we believe to be the highest point that is the [?] cliff is highest at this place in as much as the falling water has washed away the debris at the foot and deepened the cañon if it may be so designated. In the Cattin picture five high boulders are shown all in a perfectly straight line which is incorrect first because there are six of these boulders and second because they are not in a straight line, a glance at the accompanying map will show the relative position of the sisters and their relation to the old indian granaries and the white man's quarry. as well as the chimney of each known as Gitchi Manito. The old quarries from which from old time the indians have obtained the red pipe stone are in a line running north westerly. from a point north west from