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article, of blue flinty limestone, and is one and five eighths inches long. 

 It comes from the same vicinity. From its general width Fig. 98 

 would be called an arrow-head by many, and yet its general character 

 is that of a perforator. The worn appearance of the point tends to 

 confirm this view, though this may have come in other ways, as in 

 digging, for which it seems partially fitted. There are so many forms 

 intermediate between the arrow and the drill, that it is now described 

 with the former, in spite of a strong conviction that it belongs to 

 the latter. It is coarsely flaked, and is two and one eighth inches 

 long. This also is from the Seneca river. 



Fig. 99 is of purplish flint, thick and smooth, and is two inches 

 long. It is a form not so common in arrows as in spears, and this 

 is round pointed. The rounded base is found almost everywhere, 

 but perhaps is nowhere very common. This fine specimen is from 

 the Seneca river, where the larger forms sometimes occur. Fig. 100 

 is a triangular arrow-head of common hornstone, from Onondaga 

 lake. Its special feature is the straight and expanded base, which 

 is also quite sharp. The length is one inch. 



Fig. 101 is a broken article, but given to show a good example of 

 what has been called here the needle point. It is very attenuated, 

 and the section added will show how thin and delicate it is in every 

 way. This fragment is of very thin, dark blue flint, now about two 

 inches long, and nearly one and one quarter wide. It was found 

 on the Seneca river, where similar specimens sometimes occur, 

 though not very often. If found elsewhere they have not been 

 reported, but they are so often broken that they may have escaped 

 attention. 



A large proportion of the arrow-heads figured are from Onondaga 

 county and vicinity, partly because these were easily accessible, but 

 partly, also, because there they are found in greater variety than in 

 most other places, this arising from natural causes very important to 

 primitive man. Notable forms from other parts have been figured 

 when possible. 



While it is of importance to know how widely some leading forms 

 are distributed, and what is their comparative abundance, the study 

 of man's early history here requires that some unusual forms should 



