Camp Chopunnish (Long Camp), waiting for snow to melt — Patrick Gass: May 17, 1806

* The publisher has seen one of these stone heads, lately found at Hatfield, the
farm of Mr. David Davis, three miles from Pittsburg on the Allegheny river. It is
of a hard species of stone and weighs seven ounces. It is nearly spherical with a
groove cut round to hold, as is supposed, the strap by which it is fastened to the club.
Mr. Gass says it is exactly like those he had seen to the westward. There is perhaps
nothing which in form it so much resembles as a common round pincushion. In close
combat the war-mallet, when skilfully wielded, must be a destructive and deadly weapon.
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light rain all day. Our other two hunters came in and had
killed two large bears. They said it snowed on the hills, when
it rained at our camp in the valley.