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use, taste and ready siii)ply. No durable article mentioned 

 above has failed to appear in one ])lace or another while the list 

 might be much extended. The Indians used compasses for 

 laving out geometric figures, and the writer has seen a hammer 

 stone, with circles and an inscribed star, which was found in 

 an Indian fireplace. Thimbles, locks and keys, bars of lead, 

 buckles, sword hilts, large and small vises, pewter platters, 

 spikes, trammel hooks, handsaws, anvils, cannon balls, horse- 

 shoes, hammers, files, hoes, steels for striking fire, are among 

 the articles found. Mr J. Y. H. Clark says of the northern part 

 of Pompey: ''Wagon loads of old iron have been taken from 

 these grounds.'' 



Fig. 108 is a fine and curious steel chisel from Pompey which 

 w^as in the Ledyard collection. The edge is good and there are 

 two long and deep grooves above this, one above the other, 

 reaching about half way of the long and slender implement. 

 The edges are chamfered near the base. 



Fifif. 76 mav be called an iron chisel. It is quite broad for its 

 length, which is 4J inches including the broad tang. It was 

 found in Fleming in 1887 and is much corroded. 



Fig. 126 is a quadrangular steel celt, found on lot 53, south- 

 east of Pompey Center. All other remains known to the w^riter 

 there are prehistoric, but the fort of 1640 is about a mile west 

 of where this was found. It is a fine and unusual article. 



Fig. 124 is an iron awl from the fort just mentioned. It is 

 corroded, but sharp and somew^hat curved. Fig. 125, from the 

 same place, is much like the last, but smaller. Some of the old 

 Onondagas yet have similar ones in bone handles. Fig. 154 is 

 from the same place, and is of the same general character. 

 They are frequent there. 



Fia-. 81 is in the Hildburo-h collection and came from Ontario 

 county. It is long, flat and sharp, and might be called an awl, 

 but Mr Hildburgh considers it a brass arrow^ or spear head. In 

 either case it is an unusual form. 



Fig. 161 is a slender, flat and curved copper awl from Indian 

 hill, Pompey, where many have been found. It has the appear- 

 ance of being cast. 



