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NOETH AMERICAN STONE IMPLEMENTS. 



A few years ago, when treating of the flint imi^lements of Clark's 

 Work, I was not prepared to express a definite opinion concerning the 

 manner in which they were used. In the mean time, however, I have ob- 

 tained additional information in relation to the class of implements under 

 notice, v.-hich enables me, as I think, to point out the purposes for which 

 those of Clark's Work, as well as similar ones from other localities, were 

 designed. In the summer of 1860, some children, who were amusing 

 themselves near the barn on the farm of Oliver H. Mullen, in the neigh- 

 borhood of Fayetteville, Saint Clair County, Illinois, dug into the ground 

 and discovered a deposit of fifty-two disc-shaped flint implements, which 

 lay closely heaped together. Several of them came into my possession 

 through the assistance of Dr. Patrick, of Belleville, in the same county. 

 They consist, like those of Clark's Work, of the peculiar stone of Flint 

 Eidge. This I noticed at tirst sight, and so did Messrs. Squier and 

 Davis, to whom I showed them. They resemble, in general shajje, the 



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objects of Clark's Work, but are somewhat smaller and of perfectly sym- 

 metrical oi Mine, having n. v, ell-cliipped, thouL-h stro g edge; in one 

 word, they are highly finished implements, far superior to those of 

 Clark's TVork. In Fig. 3 I give a full-size drawing of one of my speci- 



