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may have been used for hammers and knives, were found, but 

 none of them artificially shaped. There are also numerous stones 

 showing marks of fire and probably used for supporting pots or 

 for heating water or for baking. One regularly oval piece of 

 t'-ap about five inches in its longest diameter, has evidently been 

 shaped by art and ground flat on one of its side^;. It may have 

 been used as a pestle for grinding, or perhaps may have been 

 heated in the fire for baking cakes in the manner described by 

 Cartier. Another of triangular form has been perforated by a 

 Saxicava in the tertiary period,as is the case with many of the loose 

 fragments of limestone near the mountain of Montreal, and has 

 perhaps been used by the Indians as a sinker. No arrow heads 

 or other weapons of stone have as yet been found ; but I have a 

 fragment of an arrow head of greenish jasper which was found in 

 my garden, at no great distance from the site in question. 



10. Iron implements. — Two small pieces of iron were found 

 ■with two bone bodkins near one of the fire places, and probably 

 belong to the Indian relics. One of them is apparently a small 

 knife or oblique edged chisel about three inches in length, and 

 such as the Indians themselves may have made from a scrap of 

 foreign iron obtained from some of their early European visitors 

 (Fig. 15). The other is a square piece of flat iron, perhaps a 

 portion of an iron hoop or of a large knife. 



Fig. 15. 



Fig. 14. 

 Fig. 14, Bodkin, half actual size. Fig. 14, Iron knive, half actual size 



The historical importance of these relics depends to a great 

 extent on the answer to the question, whether they belong to the 

 aborigines who inhabited Hochelaga at the time of its discovery 



