"Then God went on and found the dwarf under the trees in the forest. 'So,' said God, 'you will always live thus, in the forest, but no place will be your fixed abode.' "Then God came to man and found him living in a good house and in possession of and enjoying the fruits of his large gardens. So he told man that his estate and possession would also remain as it was, unchanged." UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. A PETROGLYPH FROM EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS M BY HARRIS HAWTHORNE WILDER ASSACHUSETTS petroglyphs seem to be of rare occurrence. In Mallory's work on pictographs (Ann. Rep. Bureau Am. Eth., vol. x, 1893) but three are mentioned, one being, of course, the Dighton rock. The other two, given in Rafn's Antiquités Américaines, are in Rutland, Worcester county, and in Swansea, Bristol county, the latter about ten miles from the rock of Dighton. It thus seems of value to describe a stone, covered with inscriptions, recently obtained by the author, and now in his possession. This stone is a small, oblong boulder of trap, its longest dimension being about ten inches, and its weight slightly under thirty pounds. Its surface has weathered to a rusty red color. Its location, when first found, was in West Wrentham, in the edge of Norfolk county, at a rough and picturesque spot known as "Joe's Rock," popularly associated with stories of the Indians, and still remembered as the home of the last local native, called "Joe." The stone was found about sixty years ago by a Mr Simeon Stedman, who noticed the markings on its surface, and who was sufficiently interested in it to carry it to his house in Cumberland, R. I., about two miles from Joe's Rock. There it remained for thirty years or so, when it was used to mend a back door-step, and was unfortunately set in such a way that one surface was constantly exposed to wear. It stayed in this position for thirty years more, during which time the exposed surface was worn nearly smooth, although it still shows a long zigzag line and two round pits, presumably the deeper parts of an inscription now lost. The remainder of the stone was well protected, however, in part by the earth in which it was imbedded, and in part by its position, and when removed from the place, and washed, presented the appearance shown in the photographs here given (pl. vII). Counting the worn surface the inscription runs around the entire stone, leaving uninscribed only the two rougher ends, which are opposite each other, and were obviously the sides which received the least amount of polish from the glacial action. In order to transcribe this inscription to a flat surface, at the same time keeping the proportions as perfect as possible, several rubbings were made on thin paper, and the grooves and other depressions then carefully traced and enforced. From these, pieced together, a tracing was made in the form of a continuous inscription, as shown in figure 19. で FIG. 19. Tracing of figures inscribed on the boulder shown in plate VII ex tended at full length. (By Professor W. H. Holmes.) This work was kindly undertaken by Professor William H. Holmes of the United States National Museum. This inscription disappoints one a little at first by the absence of the more usual human and animal figures, but in this and other respects bears a striking general resemblance to certain well-known petroglyphs, especially the one on Bald Friar Rock, Maryland (Mallory, op. cit., p. 84, fig. 45). It is also not unlike certain parts of the Dighton inscription. The use of small boulders, instead of cliff faces and other large rocks, is not unknown, and several instances of it are cited by Mallory, some of them within the former bounds of Algonkin people (Op. cit., |