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base is concave, with rounded angles, and the edges gracefully curve 

 to the sharp point. One of similar length and general outline, from 

 the same place, is little more than half this width. Fig. 106 shows 

 a beautiful spear or knife of fine white and somewhat translucent 

 quartz, from Oneida lake. It is so thin and even that it might well 

 be called a knife, but it would have served for a spear quite as well. 

 The length is four and seven eighths inches, and it is scarcely three 

 eighths of an inch thick. The greatest breadth would have been full 

 two inches, had not an angle of the base been broken. Another 

 beautiful example of dark jasper, from the shores of the same lake, is 

 nine and three eighths inches long, and two and seven eighths wide. 

 The base is straight, and the convex sides slightly expand toward 

 the center. A beautiful lance-head from the Oswego river, has lost 

 half an inch from its point, but is still seven and three quarters inches 

 long. It is one and seven eighths inches wide at the slightly curved 

 base, whence it tapers to the point. A similar one of grey quartz, 

 from the same place, is five inches long, and two inches wide. The 

 straight edges taper almost to the point, which they form by quickly 

 curved lines. Fig. 107 is a very handsome one of white mottled 

 quartz, three and five eighths inches long, and is also from Oswego 

 county. The base is slightly rounded, almost immediately reaching 

 the extreme width of one and five sixteenths inches, and thence slop- 

 ing in nearly straight lines to the point. 



Fig. 108 is a very remarkable specimen in every way. It is a 

 fragment of a very large spear apparently, and is very evenly chipped. 

 The material is a dark green jasper, and the straight and sharp base 

 is four inches wide. The thickness is but five eighths inches. Nine 

 inches from the base, where it is broken, it is three inches wide, and 

 if continued on the same straight lines to a sharp point, it would 

 have been nearly or quite three feet long. It is hardly probable that 

 this could have been. It is remarkably flat, and possibly may have 

 been used as an axe, the base forming the cutting edge, in that case. 



Stemmed forms occur, with and without notches. Fig. 109 is quite 

 broad, and has parallel sides, slightly notched at the expanded base. 

 The point is quite obtuse, and the full length three and three quarters 

 inches, with an average breadth of one and five eighths inches. The 



