The former are sometimes of so dark a shade that they pass for black, and are double the price of white. Having first sawed them into square pieces about a quarter of an inch in length and an eighth in thickness, they grind them round or oval upon a common grindstone. Then a hole being bored lengthways through each, large enough to admit a wire, whipcord, or thin thong, they are strung like beads and the string of 'wampom' is complete. Four or six strings joined in one breadth and fastened to each other with fine thread make a belt of 'wampom,' being about three or four inches wide and three feet long, containing, perhaps, from eight or twelve fathoms of 'wampom' in proportion to its requisite length and breadth.'

"One of the most celebrated 'wampom' belts known to have been wrought by the Indians was presented to William Penn by the Lenni- Lenape-Sachems on the occasion of the famous Treaty of 1682. The writer has in his possession a facsimile of this belt. The original belt was » presented to the Pennsylvania Historical Society by Granville John Penn, Esq., May 25th, 1857. It is of the very neatest workmanship. Its length is twenty-six inches, and its breadth nine inches. It consists of eighteen strings woven together -- formed entirely of small beads strung in rows. In the centre there is a rude, but striking representation,

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worked in dark violet beads -- of two men, one somewhat the stouter, wearing a hat ; the other rather thin, having an uncovered head. The figures stand erect, with hands clasped -- symbolic of the contract which will always live in History as -- 'Not sworn to, but never broken.'