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gum handle, which resembles that of the Mulligan River knife* ; 

 whilst the blade is more akin to one of those from " Northern 

 Queensland," in the Australian Museum, f angular in the middle 

 line of one face, flat on the other. The specimen is five and a 

 half inches long, but the apex is a little broken. The cutting 

 edges, although sharp, have not that degree of fineness visible in 

 the Mulligan River knife, which may be described as razor-edged. 

 The edges in the present case are uneven and a little notched, 

 and would inflict a jagged and awkward wound. It is generally 

 comparable to the knife figured by Smyth, used by the natives 

 of Booloo and Cooper's Creek, { except that ours does not possess 

 a handle. It is from the Gregory River. 



xi. — Spear-heads from Kimberley. 

 (PL v., fig. 2 ; PI. vi., fig. 2 • PI. vii., figs. 2 and 3 ; PI. viii., figs. 1-3.) 

 Mr. W. W. Froggatt has lent me twelve spear-heads, brought 

 by himself from the Lennard River. They are similar to those 

 lately described by me from the Ord River, || now in the Mining and 

 Geological Museum. One is of bottle glass, one of a chocolate- 

 brown, close-grained, ferruginous clay shale, another of an olive- 

 green banded quartzite, two of opaque white chalcedonic quartz, 

 similar to those before described, two of clear rock crystal, and 

 five of opaque milky- white quartz. As regards shape there are 

 two forms, the elongately lanceolate, and the more or less foliolate, 

 corresponding to those already received from the same district. 

 Examined more in detail there are four types, thus : — 



a. Elongately lanceolate, slightly angular on both faces. 



b. Ditto, angular on one face. 



c. Ditto, flat on both faces. 



d. Foliolate, slightly angular on one face, and thicker than a-c. 

 The bottle glass spear-head, the green quartzite, and three of 



the milky quartz heads are chipped to an exceedingly fine apex, 

 especially the second one mentioned. The head formed of 



* Loc. cit. pi. 9. 



f Ibid. pi. 11, figs. 8 and 9. 



X Aborigines of Victoria, 1878, I., p. 380, f. 200. 



|| Records Geol. Survey N. S. Wales, 1890, II., Pt. 2, p. 61, pi. 6. 



