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3 inches, when it is rounded off ; it is a flat smooth elongated stone 

 widest at the cutting edge, which is central and rounded, and con • 

 tinuous with the sides of the stone, which are sharply bevelled off. 

 These blades are set in an elbow shaped handle bent at rather an 

 acute angle, one of the limbs being shortened and spilt to receive 

 the blade, which is secured by being firmly bound round with thin 

 cane, the point of the elbow is produced to a long point about 

 10 inches and ornamently carved. The blade in these fine 

 specimens is always set obliquely from the long arm of the handle. 

 Three small adzes, the heads of which measuring 3£ x 2 inches, 

 of roughish flattened stone, the cutting surface is confined to 

 one end, the inner face concave the outer convex, making the 

 cutting edge arched. These stones taper towards the attached 

 end which is left in the rough ; they are fastened to a short 

 kind of elbow shaped handle by a strongly platted bracelet of 

 cane. 



Three from the Fiji Isles also attached to elbowed handles, but 

 made from thicker pieces of wood, the stone being fastened by a 

 twine of platted cocoanut fibre. The stone portion of these varies 

 in length from 6 to 9 inches, and from 1^ to 2 inches in breadth, 

 they are long, narrow, slightly fastened stones of nearly an equal 

 width throughout, the cutting edge is confined to the unattached 

 end which is slightly narrowed round laterally. 



Six specimens from the Solomon Group of Isles, four of which 

 are from Florida Isles; these last vary in length from 5 1 to 3 

 inches, they are elongated triangles, the base of the triangle being 

 formed by the cutting edge, which is curved and rounded from 

 side to side, and formed on the outer surface of the stone, being 

 very much bevelled off from within ; the whole surface is smooth 

 and polished, flattened laterally, with blunt rounded edges. Those 

 from the other Solomon Isles differ only in being narrower and 

 longer, measuring in length about seven inches. 



Two from the Loyalty Isles, very similar in form and general 

 appearance to the last, but contracted above the cutting edge, 

 and about an inch longer and broader at the cutting edge, which 

 is also slightly more central. 



