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implement is quite sharp. It was found on the Voorhees farm, 

 lot 99, Lysander, in 1881. A lateral view is added. 



Fig. 19 is a tine copper ceil from Point Alexander, Wolfe 

 island, north of Cape Vincent N. Y. It is mucli niore tapering 

 than most of those described and is 7 inches long. Though just 

 north of our border it was found by one of our citizens and is 

 in the Richmond collection. All along the St Lawrence the 

 occurrence of copper implements on either shore may be con- 

 sidered an accident of travel. They occur on Wolfe island, 

 Tidd's island near Gananoque^ at Brockville, and on islands 

 farther down the stream. 



Fig. G2 was found on the south side of the Oneida river at 

 Brewerton, and is in the Bigelow collection. It is 5| inches 

 long, and is nearly tiat on both sides. There are many linear 

 ridges and it is somewhat sharp at both ends. The broad end 

 had the corner cut by the finder. 



Fig. 28 is from Dr Rau's half length of a New York copper 



celt, fig. 227 of the Archaeoloficul collection of the United States 



national museum. He said of this: 



The most beautiful article of a wedgelike character is a 

 kind of chisel with an expanding, strongly curved edge, which 

 shows a slight concavity, imparting to the implement almost 

 the character of a gouge. The upper surface is nearly even, 

 but the back ])art presents, as it were, two faces, which join 

 in the middle, forming a longitudinal ridge. 



Fig. 4 is from an outline sent to the writer by Dr D. S. Kellogg 

 of Platlsburg N. Y. and shows a rude copper knife or hatchet, 

 having the usual raised lines on both sides. It is reduced in 

 the figure, measuiing :\ inches between the extreme points. 



Fig. 73 shows a large co])per gouge with parallel edges. Per- 

 hajiS from some flaw in the metal it was partially broken at 

 the upper end and an attempt has been made to cut it off. It 

 was found near Constantia, on the north shore of Oneida lake, 

 about 1850, by Mr James Haynes. It went into the Terry col- 

 lection. No implement has been found like it here and it is 

 quite deep and thick. 



Fig. 1 seems the finest specimen of its class yet found, weigh 

 ing 3 pounds, 2 ounces, and beiag a little over 10^ inches long. 



