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This made necessary a notch on each side near the base. The 
reverse is flat and the ridged side is shown, with the usual green 
corrosion and hammered streaks so commonly found. He de- 
scribed these as a “threadlike veining of the copper, with a 
smooth, polished surface, though with a rich patina. In fact, 
this side of the blade is a vivid green of beautiful tint. The other 
side is smooth, unpitted, and blotched yellow and green.” These 
are frequent features of these implements. 
Two small axes or celts of native copper the writer found in 
the fine cabinet of the Athens historical society, Pennsylvania. 
Fig. 175 is one of these, belonging to Dr C. H. Ott of Sayre Pa. 
but found at Owego N. Y., like the next. It is symmetric and 
well wrought. A longitudinal section is given. Fig. 176 is an- 
other of these, more irregular and like an ax. It belongs to Mr 
Percy L. Lang of Waverly N. Y. Both are fine and in good con- 
dition. ‘The writer learned of no other articles of native copper 
near the Susquehanna and Chemung rivers, the general range 
being farther north. Others will probably be found but to no 
great extent. 
Mr Van Epps sent also a figure of a fragment of a native cop- 
' per ax, “found on the ridge near Edmonds house on the Vlaie,” 
in 1875. This is in the town of Broadalbin. It now belongs to 
Mr E. B. Markham, Northampton N. Y. The curved cutting edge 
remains, 2+ inches wide, and the fragment is a little more than 
that in length. He also kindly furnished a statement of native 
copper articles found in eastern New York but not including 
Lake Champlain. He commenced his descriptions in February 
1894, bringing them down to November 1901, and they embrace 
10 celts or axes, nine lance-shaped blades, nearly all with tangs, 
and an interesting find of 135 beads. His account follows: 
A brief description of the celts shows four found in the town of 
Glenville, Schenectady co. alone. Three were apparently surface 
finds; the fourth was from a grave opened by a steam shovel in a 
gravel bank, midway between Hoffmans Ferry and Schenectady. 
This was described in the American antiquarian, March 1894, , 
_p. 110. Some years later the interesting lot of native copper 
beads described below was obtained from another grave in the 
same bank. 
