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ling or of suspension over the fire. In one example found by Mr. 

 Murphy, (Fig. 8,) this corner is fashioned into a human 

 head, which though rude in execution displays some artistic taste 

 in its design. The vessel to which it belonged must have been 

 used for culinary purposes, for like many others in the collection, 

 it is crusted with the carbonised remains of some vegetable 

 pottage. 



Fig. 8. 



6. Stone Implements. — These consist of chisels of the ordi- 

 nary form, made of greenstone and gneiss ; hammers, some 

 with grooves for attachment to handles, and others rounded for 

 use with the naked hand, after the fashion of those represented 

 on Egyptian monuments ; flat stones for baking or for preparing 

 skins, and whet-stones with grooves made by sharpening imple- 

 ments upon them. There are also great quantities of stones 

 which have been heated in the fire, probably for baking cakes of 

 corn meal in the Indian manner. 



T. Metallic Articles. — Of the few objects of this kind which 

 have been found in such circumstances as to render accidental 

 intermixture improbable, the most interesting are a small knife 

 resembling a scalpel ; a nail deprived of its head, and rounded 

 and sharpened at the point ; and a small rectangular piece of 

 sheet brass, apparently cut by a stone chisel or some similar 

 implement from a larger piece. These are sufficient to shew 

 European intercourse before the final disappearance of the Indian 

 settlement. 



