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be termed a knife. Fig. 102 from Oswego county is a fine example 

 of this type of spear. It is of pure white flint, and six and one half 

 inches long. Articles of this showy material are frequent there, and 

 are usually thin and finely worked. An early trail crossed that 

 county from Oneida lake to Lake Ontario and the St Lawrence, and 

 the many travelers lost some fine articles on the way. Between that 

 trail and the Hudson river very few of the best early relics occur, 

 as the Mohawk presented few temptations to those in search of game. 



Fig. 103 has a straighter base than the last, and is not as neat in 

 outline. It is quite thick, being eleven sixteenths of an inch in the 

 short diameter, and five and one eighth inches long. The material 

 is grey flint, and it comes from the east side of Skaneateles lake, in 

 the town of Spofford. Another good example of this form is from 

 the east end of Oneida lake, and is but three and seven eighths inches 

 in length. A broad and fine one, with a slightly concave base, from 

 St Lawrence county, is of white quartz, quite neatly chipped for this 

 material. It is four inches long and one and seven eighths broad. 



Fig. 104 is an example of a frequent and variable form, having a 

 three-sided base. The edges may be straight or convex, and the 

 thickness varies much. This comes from the north shore of Oneida 

 lake, and is of black flint, five and five eighths inches long, and half 

 an inch thick. These could only have been spears. A fine and 

 larger one of common drab flint, from Baldwinsville, is six and one 

 half inches long by two and three quarters wide. This has convex 

 edges. Flinty limestone is a frequent material for these, and one 

 from near Oneida lake, similar in form to the last, but little over four 

 inches long, is made of birdseye limestone. Fig. 105 is one of the 

 finest of these, made of common flint, and is seven inches long. It 

 is very neat and symmetrical, and the form is the one so common in 

 New York caches, though rarely as large as this. Large spears of 

 this outline are not rare. 



Those of a more triangular form are often knives, but spears will 

 be found among them. It will not be necessary to figure many of 

 these, or even to describe more than representative forms. A broad 

 and massive one of common flint, from Onondaga lake, is five inches 

 long, and has a width of nearly two and three quarters inches. The 



