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“791, tight, and will found as clear as a china bowl. 
in>-~ Some of thofe kettles are fo large as to be capable 
Jy. of containing five or fix gallons; and though it 
is impoffible thefe poor people can perform this 
arduous work with any other tools than harder | 
ftones, yet they are by far fuperior to any that | 
1 had ever feen in Hudfon’s Bay; every one of 
them being ornamented with neat mouldings 
round the rim, and fome of the large ones with. 
a kind of flute-work at each corner. In fhape 
they were a long fquare, fomething wider at the 
top than bottom, like a knife-tray, and ftrong 
handles of the folid ftone were left at each end to 
lift them up. 
Their hatchets are made of a thick lump of cop- 
per, about five or fix inches long, and from one 
and a half to two inches fquare; they are bevill- 
ed away at one end like a mortice-chiffel. This 
is lafhed into the end of a piece of wood about _ 
twelve or fourteen inches long, in fuch a manner 
as to act like an adze: in general they are applied 
to the wood like a chiffel, and driven in witha 
heavy club, inftead of a mallet. Neither the © 
weight of the tool nor the fharpnefs of the metal 
will admit of their being handled either as adze 
or axe, with any degree of fuccefs. 
The men’s bayonets and women’s knives are 
alfo made of copper ; the former are in fhape like 
the ace of {pades, with the handle of deers horn 
a foot long, and the latter exactly refemble thofe 
defcribed by Crantz. Samples of both thefe im- — 
plements 
