THE ABORIGINES. J I 



by some other stone to an edge nearly two inches broad, 

 comes from a farm in the south end of Beech wood. 



These edge tools are usually badly nicked, not because 

 the Indians were careless, for a stone implement cuts 

 slowly enough when sharp, but because these hills have 

 been plowed over for two hundred years, and there has 

 been every opportunity for the cattle's hoofs, and for the 

 plowshare, and for other stones to strike the brittle edges. 



Broken arrowheads, not a few, have been found where 



No. I. No. 2. No. 3. 



Reduced to one third diameter. 



Three Kinds of Stone Sinkers made by the Indians. 



No. I found at Straits Pond. No. 2 found at Lily Pond. No. 3 found in Beech- 

 wood, near Doane Street. 



they last led the arrow shaft, which long ago has rotted 

 off. 



Stone knife blades, the longest measuring three inches, 

 are among our collection, and any one who knows the uses 

 to which wild Indians nowadays put their knives may 

 guess what blood may have followed some of these stone 

 blades. 



Spearheads, one of them found on Government Island, 

 are among the hints of Indian fishing art. 



