408 NOETH AMERICAN STONE IMPLEMENTS. 



opinion. Originally, perhaps, one of those unusually large spear-heads, 

 ■which are occasionally found, it may have heeu reduced subsequently, 

 after having lost the point, to its present shape. Yet, it may never 

 have possessed a form different from that which it now exhibits. Thia 

 specimen is chijiped from a fine reddish flint which contains encrinites. 

 I obtained it from quarrymen near West Belleville, who found it in the 

 earth while they were engaged in baring the rock for extending the 

 quarry. In conclusion, I will state that, since writing the preceding 

 pages, I received a number of stone implements from Muncy, Lycoming 

 County, Pennsylvania, among which there are some large scrapers of 

 the European type. Their material, however, is not flint, but either 

 graywacke or a kind of tough slate. 



