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implement is quite sharp. It was found on the Voorhees farm, 
lot 99, Lysander, in 1881. A lateral view is added. 
Fig. 19 is a fine copper celt from Point Alexander, Wolfe 
island, north of Cape Vincent N. Y. It is much more tapering 
than most of those described and is 7 inches long. Though just 
north of our border it was,found by one of our citizens and is 
in the Richmond collection. All along the St Lawrence the 
occurrence of copper implements on either shore may be con- 
sidered an accident of travel. They occur on Wolfe island, 
Tidd’s island near Gananoque, at Brockville, and on islands 
farther down the stream. 
Fig. 62 was found on the south side of the Oneida river at 
Brewerton, and is in the Bigelow collection. It is 52 inches 
long, and is nearly flat on both sides. There are many linear 
ridges and it is somewhat sharp at both ends. The broad end 
had the corner cut by the finder. 
Fig. 28 is from Dr Rau’s half length of a New York copper. 
celt, fig. 227 of the Archaeological collection of the United States 
national museum. He said of this: 
The most beautiful article of a wedgelike character is a 
kind of chisel with an expanding, strongly curved edge, which 
shows a slight concavity, imparting to the implement almost 
the character of a gouge. The upper surface is nearly even, 
but the back part presents, as it were, two faces, which join 
in the middle, forming a longitudinal ridge. 
Fig. 4 is from an outline sent to the writer by Dr D. S. Kellogg 
of Plattsburg N. Y. and shows a rude copper knife or hatchet, 
having the usual raised lines on both sides. It is reduced in 
the figure, measuring 3 inches between the extreme points. 
Pig. 73 shows a large copper gouge with parallel edges. Per- 
haps from some flaw in the metal it was partially broken at 
the upper end and an attempt has been made to cut it off. It 
was found near Constantia, on the north shore of Oneida lake, 
about 1850, by Mr James Haynes. It went into the Terry col- 
lection. No implement has been found like it here and it is 
quite deep and thick. 
Fig. 1 seems the finest specimen of its class yet found, weigh- 
ing 3 pounds, 2 ounces, and beiag a little over 104 inches long. 
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