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one out of a number of narrow knives of this form, all found on one 

 small site on the Seneca river. They varied from three to four and 

 one half inches in length, and were very thin and sharp. From their 

 numbers and uniform character, it is probable they were scattered 

 from a cache. The one figured is four and one half inches long, and 

 one and one eighth inches broad. One of the finest of this form is of 

 striped jasper, five inches long, and comes from Oneida lake. This, 

 however, has curving edges, and is broadest near the center. A 

 broader form than that last figured, appeared in a lot of 125 like 

 specimens in a grave in Bellona, near Seneca lake. A few are nearly 

 long, straight sided triangles. Some knives have the simple pen- 

 tagonal form, so common in caches, and these are sometimes bent. 

 This peculiarity is frequent in notched forms, usually classed as 

 knives because of this. Fig. 146 shows an arrow form thus bent. In 

 one instance a broad notched form from Oswego Falls, three inches 

 long, has a distinct double curve of the surface. Other notched 

 forms, and some of the simpler, may not have an equilateral blade. 



Fig. 143 is a fine knife of grey limestone from Cross lake, much like 

 the Queensbury knife just mentioned. It is truncate at each end, 

 three and five eighths inches long, one and one quarter inches broad 

 in the middle, where it is widest, and is somewhat thick. Fig. 140 is 

 a small, slender knife, approaching the drill form, if not an implement 

 of that kind. It is of variegated flint, two inches long, and comes 

 from Seneca river. Fig. 144 is a coarse and heavy curved knife of 

 hornstone, from Onondaga lake. It is five inches long and two and 

 one quarter broad, with nearly parallel edges. This is quite a fre- 

 quent form. Fig. 145 is the ordinary leaf-shaped knife found almost 

 everywhere. This is of common flint, three and one half inches long. 

 In other examples it would vary in size, length or breadth, ranging 

 from broad to narrow, and similar differences will be observed in 

 every form here represented. 



SPADES OR HOES 



Spades are of very uncertain character, and some articles possibly 

 used as such might be considered spears, knives, or even rude celts. 

 Few are found that we can call spades and nothing more. The early 



