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forming a double scraper, which is not a rare feature. The length is 

 but one inch. A handsome one of brownish, banded flint, one and 

 one eighth inches long, comes from Baldwinsville. Fig. 185 repre- 

 sents this. It is of uniform thickness, a quarter of an inch, but is 

 peculiar in having a concave and convex surface, with the scraper 

 edge beveled from the former to the latter. 



Fig. 186 is a long, leaf-shaped scraper or knife of brown flint, found 

 near the rifts south of Three River Point. It is five and one half 

 inches long, and suggests a long knife, but has but one or two long 

 flakings on the under surface, to meet which there is the usual bevel 

 nearly all around. It is moderately thin, and very much twisted. 

 Several of this form and size occur, with many variations, and nearly 

 all would serve for knives almost as well as scrapers, although having 

 the characteristics of the latter. 



Fig. 187 shows one of the finest scrapers, in material and form 

 almost identical with some knives, except in the edge. It is of lus- 

 trous brownish grey flint, four and one eighth inches long, and 

 widest in the middle, whence it tapers almost to a point at either end. 

 This was found at Onondaga lake. The greatest width is one inch, 

 and it is less than half that in thickness. 



Quartz scrapers are rare in New York. One from Brewerton, one 

 and three eighths inches in length, is triangular, and like others with 

 that outline, is much the thickest at the broad scraper end. Fine leaf 

 or rather often triangular forms, however, occur in common or light 

 grey flints. Fig. 188 is one of these from the Seneca river, which is of 

 dark blue flint, two inches long, and very evenly beveled around and 

 near the end. The lateral edges are sharp, as though intended for 

 cutting, and as it might have been used without a handle, if desired, 

 it probably combined two implements, as was so frequently the case. , 

 Scrapers of this form are usually thin and flat, but are a little thicker 

 at the broad end, and are also neatly chipped on the lower surface. 

 Many are much smaller than this specimen, and some have the point 

 turned to one side. 



Among other remarkable scrapers are some from Canajoharie, 

 found along the river bank. Fig. 189 represents a long form of 

 these. They are not many in number, and have been reported 



