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one sided basal drills, and those oddly curved, but these seem mere 

 freaks, and but one will now be mentioned, because some have 

 thought it may have been used in forming a primitive fish-hook, by 

 binding it to a perforated stick. Dr Rau (see Prehistoric fishing, 

 fig. 180) shows one closely resembling this in a Greenland hook of 

 wood and stone. Capt. John Smith speaks of a similar use of bone 

 in Virginia. ' Their hookes are either a bone grated, as they noch 

 their arrowes in the forme of a crooked pinne or fish-nooke, or of 

 the splinter of a bone tyed to the clift of a little sticke, and with the end 

 of the line they tie on the bait.' That this article is well adapted for 

 such use will be readily seen, and Dr Rau's figure seems almost con- 

 clusive proof. 



Occasionally a drill is widened in the middle, between the base 

 and point. Very simple examples of these occur, but sometimes 

 they are rather curious. Fig. 173 is a flat form of drab flint, one and 

 one half inches long, and might be described as a double thumb- 

 screw. While the center has been well preserved, both points have 

 been broken off, but they were evidently quite short when per- 

 fect, so that the figure presents very nearly the original out- 

 line. Even now it is a most interesting article. Fig. 174 is 

 another odd form, very wide, and deeply notched. Above the 

 notches it might be described as broadly winged, but the barbs form 

 its most distinctive feature. It is of drab flint, one and one quarter 

 inches long, and was found not far from Rome, N. Y. 



Many drills are nearly triangular, and occasionally one may have 

 been formed from an arrow-head. Fig. 175 may have had such a 

 primary use, followed by a moderate narrowing of the point. It is 

 notched, of dark flint, one and seven eighths inches long, and was 

 found near Three River Point. Fig. 176 is a straight perforator of 

 common hornstone, two and five eighths inches length. The base is 

 better finished than in most examples of this variety, which are often 

 smaller, and of black flint. This conies from ( hiondaga lake, where 

 many of this form have been found. 



Sometimes one occurs, straight and uniform, which lias a rounded 

 point at each end. These grade into a broader form, which seems 

 a small knife. A few have an erratic form, marked by a one sided 



