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Specimens worked with less cave are not wanting, and among them may be 

 mentioned a variety of an irregular roundish or oval shape, and characterized 

 by a knob at the upper end (Fig. 10G, greenstone, Massachusetts) . There is 





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l E\T&amp;gt;AXTS AXD SINKERS. 



much probability that they served for sinking nets. Some Smithsonian speci 

 mens of this description are half a foot long and weigh more than three 

 pounds. The character of net-sinkers appears more distinct in the types 

 following next, to which, indeed, that use has been ascribed by common con- 



