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handle with a similar gum, making a cutting edge of about 5£ 

 inches in length, the wooden handle being about 1 6 inches. One 

 knife from West Australia, made from a sharp chip of rock crystal 

 which is imbedded into an oblong mass of gum covered at the end 

 with opossum skin to prevent it from adhering to the hand. 



One from the Wollombi, as described, 5| x 11 inches, in all 

 probability introduced from abroad. 



Two specimens from New Caledonia, the larger one oval, pointed 

 at one end, broader and rounded at the other, much flattened, with 

 a rather sharp cutting edge all round, measuring 7x4 inches ; 

 the smaller one is similar in form, but is oval, measuring 3i inches 

 wide by 4 inches in length, made from pale green cracked pieces 

 of turpentine. 



Two fine hatchets from Canala, New Caledonia, these are 

 flattened discs of transparent greenstone with a very sharp cutting 

 edge all round, ranging from 7J to 6 inches in diameter. These 

 two specimens have wooden handles attached about 18 inches long 

 bound round with a soft cordage made from the fur of the flying 

 fox and dyed dark crimson, the end ornamented by shells ; there 

 are two holes drilled through the stone about 1 J inches from the 

 edge, and the handle is fastened to the stone by strong cordage 

 passed through the holes. 



Two from New Zealand ; one consists of a flattened oval piece 

 of greenstone with a cutting edge all round, obtusely pointed at 

 either end, rounded at the tips, measuring 11 inches long and 5 

 inches wide. The other a very perfect spatulate shaped meri, 

 about 13 inches long, 3£ inches broad at blade, having a handle 

 with a hole drilled through. 



Two from Sir George Grey's Island, New Zealand, a pale gray 

 ragstone, flattish, elongated, somewhat rectangular at the cutting 

 edge which is bevelled to one face, the sides are also squared, the 

 attached end is slightly narrower and left in the rough. 



Three large broad axes from New Guinea, the stone blade of 

 which measures about 15 inches long by 6 inches at the cutting 

 edge, and tapering to the end attached to the handle to about 



