DESCRIPTIONS OP THE PLATES BONE IMPLEMENTS, ETC. [B. XIII.] 99 



of pits was made on a premeditated plan. The several lines have not the 

 same number of pits, nor is the arrangement of the latter vertically symme- 

 trical. Though the isolated group of pits on the flat face (fig. 136) gives nine, 

 when counted either vertically or transversely, yet neither this nor the groups 

 of notches constitute for certain any indication of a system of numeration, 

 nor indeed are we sure that they belong to any intelligible plan of marking. 



Fig. 14 is a small, much curved, and sharply pointed Implement of Reindeer 

 Horn, triangular in section where it is thickest and straightest. 



