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town of Marcy. This is eight and three eighths' inches long. Fig. 156 

 is a well marked form. In this most of the surface is flat, the cutting 

 edge being sharply beveled on each side. It is of drab flint, two and 

 one quarter inches long, and five eighths of an inch thick. It comes 

 from Seneca river. Another finely chipped celt is from near Skane- 

 ateles lake, and is represented by fig. 159. It is of brown flint, over 

 an inch thick, and sharpened at both ends. The length is nearly four 

 inches, and it is symmetrical throughout. Fig. 160 is of common 

 hornstone, with parallel sides and rounded edge. It is from Cross 

 lake, and is two and one half inches long, one and one eighth wide, 

 and three quarters of an inch thick. It is very neatly chipped. Fig. 

 161 is of unusual material, being of clouded quartz, well worked. It 

 is two inches wide, and two and seven eighths long. This is from 

 Onondaga lake. Others might be described, but there is no great 

 variation in form. Only a few are elliptic, but several have the wide 

 and ground edge. Although rare, they are widely distributed, and 

 are sometimes of choice material. 



An earthwork in the town of Granby has no relics beyond small 

 fragments of earthenware, a few flint flakes, a flat sinker, and one or 

 two skeletons, but a rude celt of greenstone, seven and one quarter 

 inches long, was found quite near. The indications are that its 

 occupation was very brief. An earthwork, three miles southeast of 

 Baldwinsville, has fine celts, but many more which are very rude, 

 varying from three and one half to nine inches in length. One of 

 the latter length is massive, prominently ridged on one side, and but 

 little worked. Another of talc, four inches long, and laterally curved, 

 is rudely chipped, but is remarkable for form and material. Some 

 of these rough celts are a broad ellipse. The only earthwork in 

 Wayne county furnished a rude one of dark crystalline stone, nine 

 and one eighth inches long. Numberless examples might be given. 



PERFORATORS 



Among the most remarkable and perplexing articles of flint are 

 those known as perforators or drills. They are widely distributed, 

 and are of a comparatively early date, in New York at least, not 

 having been used by the Iroquois, who preferred awls of horn or 



