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front. Possibly as one hole may not have given the desired angle for the handle, 
another hole was added. | 
Fig. 34 illustrates a Fulgur perversum from Cutler, on the mainland of the 
eastern coast, Dade county. It shows the usual removal of part of the body-whorl 
at the edge of the aperture, but no perforation above the shoulder. There are three 
perforations almost in line in the bod y-whorl, and a notch at the edge of the aper- 
ture. It would seem that the central hole which faces the notch, having become 
broken, was abandoned with its corresponding notch, and that two new holes were 
made for attaching the handle. 
Fic. 35.—Shell implement. Battey Place. (About full size.) 
The implement shown in Fig. 35, wrought from a comparatively small but 
heavy shell of the same species as the last, is of an ordinary type of which, in 
addition to the removal of part of the body-whorl, at the edge of the aperture, 
another part is eut away within, laying bare partof the axis. А single perforation 
in the bod y-whorl faces the noteh. Тһе peculiarity of this implement is the pres- 
ence of two small perforations above the shoulder, in line, one on each side. These 
perforations are smaller and more regularly made than the single ones of which we 
