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perfect likeness between the North American and the Scanian instrument is, 

 that if we carefully examine the latter, we shall find it scratched transversely in 

 two places, the one at the place where the strings on the American one attach 

 the points to the shaft, and the other a little way higher up, where the shaft ends 

 in the American implement, and where the points are tied round ; the Scanian 

 dart is in other respects entirely even and smooth. 



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Fro. 10i). Fimen. 



P[0. 101. Seoland. 



Fia. 102. Tierra del Puego. (5724). 



Pros. 100-102. Bone harpoon-heads. 



" Thus we see that the Scanian implement was constructed exactly in the 

 same manner as the American, and it is difficult for us to understand how 



