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Europe they seem rare. Sometimes they are almost equilateral; at 

 others nearly as slender as many perforators. They are usually neatly 

 chipped and thin. Fig. 2 is a small example, about as broad as long, 

 being an inch in extent. It has a concave base, and is of common 

 flint, slightly mottled. This comes from the Seneca river, where it 

 is a frequent form. It is sometimes much smaller. Fig. 3 is of 

 brown flint from the same stream. In this, however, while the base 

 is more deeply concave, the lateral lines are slightly convex instead 

 of straight, and the width exceeds the length, being one and three- 

 eighths inches. Fig. 4 a, a still broader form, seems a true arrow, 

 and yet there are reasons for thinking it a knife. It is of common 

 dark flint, and is one and one quarter inches wide. Fig. 46 is an 

 extreme form of this, from Cross lake. It is of an obscurely banded 

 drab flint, and the width is one and eleven sixteenths inches, more 

 than double the length, if we call it an arrow, but its proper place 

 seems with the knives. Fig. 4c shows the other extreme of this 

 somewhat rare form. In this all the angles are a little rounded. 



Three early forts, near Baldwinsville, have afforded some of the 

 finest examples of the straight sided, slender triangular arrows, vary- 

 ing from one and one quarter to two and one half inches long. From 

 one of these, a stockade on the north side of Seneca river, come both 

 broad and extremely slender forms, with all intermediate grades. 

 Fig. 5 is one of these, one and one quarter inches long, and of dark 

 flint, proportionally quite as broad as those so frequent elsewhere. 

 Fig. 6 is of light drab flint, and is two and one half inches long, the 

 utmost limit technically allowed for arrow-heads. It will be seen that 

 an inch more would add little to its weight, or resistance to the air. 

 Fig. 7 is of the same material, and from the same place. It is two 

 inches long, and another almost as long is very much narrower. 



An Onondaga stockade, occupied about A. D. 1600, has this 

 smaller and broader form, but with few examples. It occurs a little 

 later in time, in common flint, in a stockade a mile south of Delphi, 

 but is not as neatly chipped. An Onondaga stockade south of Pom- 

 pey Center, apparently occupied about 1640, has the same form 

 and material. Fig. 8 is an example, one and one eighth inches long. 

 Some are smaller than this. Most of these later specimens are small, 



