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Many rude knives, large and small, were nearly circular, and these 

 also will require but slight notice. They are chipped to a sharp edge 

 all around, and may sometimes have served as scrapers, although they 

 do not have their peculiar features. The leaf shape is also very com- 

 mon and of wide distribution, varying from very small to very large. 

 A very long one of brown flinty limestone, seven inches in length, 

 has a surface greatly curved, being convex on one side, and concave 

 on the other. The concave surface is a large single flake, except for 

 the chipping along the edge. This special form is not rare, and is 

 almost as much scraper as knife. The one described is two and one 

 half inches wide. Another of dark hornstone, from Oswego Falls, is 

 a typical leaf-shaped knife, five and one half inches long by two inches 

 broad. 



Fig. 127 is interesting, as being one of 23 found in the 

 mound at Greene, Chenango county. It is of yellow jasper, three 

 and three quarters inches long and two inches wide, and may have 

 been buried there long after the mound was made. In the Annals of 

 Binghamton, it is stated that 'At one point in the mound a large 

 number, perhaps two hundred arrow-heads, were discovered, col- 

 lected in a heap. They were of the usual form, and of yellow or black 

 flint. Another pile of 60 or more, was found in another place in 

 the same mound. A smaller leaf-shaped knife of yellow jasper, two 

 and three quarters inches long, also came from a grave in Greene, 

 as reported, but may also have been from this mound, so many 

 articles of yellow jasper having been taken from it. 



A very large and rude knife, seven and one quarter inches long, 

 also came from a cache of 19 pieces at Baldwinsville. It was 

 an unusually rough and mixed lot, nearly all of yellowish jasper, 

 tinged with brown. Most of the pieces had the form usual in caches, 

 but some were of ruder outlines, and a few could only have been 

 utilized as scrapers. 



Knives which are elliptical, or of a long diamond form, pointed at 

 both ends, are often very fine, and are by no means rare. Fig. 128 is 

 of drab flint, four inches long, and more slender and pointed than 

 many of this form, besides being more angular in the center. It is 

 quite neatly worked. A fine one of yellow jasper, from the Oneida 



