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cattle, and all kinds of stock, in great abundance. Well, 

 there was more room to grow then than now, and our 

 ancestors were equal to the occasion. Mr. Dodge con- 

 cluded with some valuable practical suggestions, ex- 

 pressed in humorous and attractive phrase, and thanked 

 the people of Amesbury and Salisbury for the active in- 

 terest manifested on this occasion. 



Mr. F. W. PUTNAM exhibited a number of stone imple- 

 ments which he had been allowed to select for the purpose 

 from the very interesting collection belonging to the 

 Amesbury Natural History Club. He stated that he had 

 selected the forms on the table as they illustrated the 

 various types of stone implements found throughout New 

 England and consisted of the several forms of arrow- 

 heads, spearheads, skin-dressers and scrapers, chisel and 

 gouge-shaped implements, axes, hammer-stones, sinkers, 

 pestles, etc. Many of the forms on the table were com- 

 mon the world over, and showed conclusively that the 

 same ends were accomplished by the same means ; other 

 forms, though belonging to the same general groups, 

 were, however, slightly different in the details of their 

 execution and were peculiar to New England so far as he 

 knew. The long-bladed axe, with the rounded upper 

 portion, and some of the gouged-shaped implements came 

 into this group. The large, roughly made "plumb bob" 

 shaped "sinkers" are one of the forms, as yet to his 

 knowledge, found only in New England. These large 

 pear-shaped implements are quite common on the sea- 

 coast and are so well adapted for use as sinkers to nets 

 that they are generally classed as such, though it cannot 

 be questioned but that many of them run into the forms 

 of pestles, and would serve well for use as such, provided 

 grit was no objection as a component of "Indian cake;" 



