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NOETH AMERICAN STONE IMPLEMENTS. 



A few years ago, wlieii treating of the flint implements of Clark's 

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

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

 tained additional information in relation to the class of implements under 

 notice, which 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 1800, some children, who v^ere 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 first sight, and so did Messrs. Squier and 

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



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

 metrical outline, having a well-chipped, though strong edge 5 in one 

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

 Clark's Work. In Fig. 3 I give a full-size di awing of one of my sped- 



