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singly ; like arrows, hatchets, and other weapons. In 

 the museum of the Historical Society of Brooklyn I 

 saw a hoe similar to those described by Abbott, and 

 which had like them been found with many others 

 arranged in a circle under the ground ; and Mr. Jones, 

 of the same city, the author of an excellent work on 

 the antiquities of the Southern Indians, showed me 

 some of these hoes with the edges evidently worn by 

 use, and pointed out to me that Carver refers to the 

 care and secrecy with which the Indians were in the 

 habit of hiding their stores of stone implements and 

 weapons. Squier describes large deposits of these 

 in Ohio. He also states that at a place called Flint 

 Ridge, in the same state, where certain concretions of 

 chert suitable for these implements are found, count- 

 less pits, dug for these flints, occur for many miles. 

 These excavations are often ten or fourteen feet deep, 

 and acres in extent. 



In connection with this, it is be observed that in 

 localities where flint weapons or implements were 

 fabricated, great quantities of imperfectly made speci- 

 mens were left behind, as well as of chips. Further, 

 it was a well-known practice of American tribes to 

 carry off from the quarries roughly- shaped implements, 

 to be afterwards more carefully shaped at leisure. 

 These facts may account for many deposits of so-called 

 Palaeolithic weapons, as well as for the occurrence of 

 so-called " transition " deposits, in which imperfectly 

 and well made flint objects are found mixed together, 

 as in the celebrated pre-historic flint mines of Cissbury, 



