408 NORTH AMEKICAN STONE IMPLEMENTS. 



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

 which are occasionally found, it may have been 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 chipped from a fine reddish tliut which contains encriuites. 

 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, 1 will state that, since writing the preceding 

 Images, 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 

 gray wacke or a kind of tough slate. 



