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finest of these, but has lost the extreme point, having been originally 

 a little over five inches long. It has two notches on each side, and 

 the surface is flatter and straighter than in others of this material, 

 while it is also more slender. It was recently plowed up near Three 

 River Point. 



These spears and arrows with more than one notch on each side 

 are but moderately rare, and are of wide distribution in New York, 

 as compared with other parts of the country. Dr Rau figured a 

 broken one from Maine, made of brown jasper, whose full length 

 would have been six and one quarter inches. He marked this as 

 ' quite exceptional,' and it had three notches on each side. It is of 

 the usual New York form. Dr Abbott did not place this among his 

 New Jersey forms, nor does it appear in Mr Fowke's chipped imple- 

 ments of the Mississippi basin and the southern states. The writer 

 does not find it in his collection of outlines of rare articles in Ohio. 

 One occurs in the collection of the Canadian institute, in Toronto, 

 which is three and one half inches long, and has double notches, but 

 there it is also called rare, and more have come under the writer's 

 eye in central New York, within a radius of a dozen miles, than have 

 been reported in all the country elsewhere. It might be considered 

 a New York form. 



A broken one of white flint comes from the Seneca river, and has 

 two distinct broad notches on each side, with others which are ob- 

 scure. This fragment is now two and three quarters inches long, with 

 straight edges, tapering from a base one and one half inches wide. 

 The original length would have been four and one half inches, unless 

 it had a rounded obtuse point, as in the next. Fig. 120 is a fine 

 article from Oswego Falls, and is of greenish white flint, four and 

 three eighths inches long. The double notches are much more dis- 

 tinct than in the fragment just described. One of white flint comes 

 from the Mohawk valley, and is five inches long, with three notches 

 on each side. Another, made of red jasper, is from Brewerton, and 

 is three inches long, with double notches. Similar ones occur there. 

 A well wrought one of drab flint, from the same place, is three and 

 one half inches long, and has double notches. A smaller and broadly 

 triangular specimen, of common flint, comes from Skaneateles lake. 



