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The knives were found in gravel, below the base of an arti- 
ficial mound erected on a high ridge, through which a roadway 
had been cut, removing half the mound, and leaving the roadbed 
i0 feet below the base of mound, as first discovered by early 
settlers. In excavating for the roadway the knives and bones no 
doubt slid down from a point above in the body of the mound. 
The apex of the mound is at present 15 feet or more above the 
roadbed. It is thought De Celeron with his large company of 
French and Indians camped near this spot in 1749, and long © 
previous to this date the natives of this locality no doubt had — 
intercourse and traffic with the French in Canada. . . The : 
above mentioned mound is near Jamestown and the knives were 
taken from it April 1887. They bear the words “ Lempier—Rue ~ 
St Honore—34. [38 a Paris.” ; 
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In a letter dated May 10, 1901, Mr Henderson corrected this: 
slatement: 
Two steel French knives, 12 inches in length of blade, one 2 
inches in width at the handle and the other 14 inches, bearing 
the trademark “ Sabatier, Rue St Honore, 84, A Paris, ” were 
found with a human skeleton in removing a large mound from 
highway near Fluvanna. They were doubtless obtained by the | 
Senecas from the French in Canada by traffic or stealth, or were 
intrusively buried in this mound with some deceased French 
hunter. 
Fig. 169 shows the narrowest of these knives, the trademark 
being on the opposite side. It is 1} inches wide at the handle 
and 12 inches in length thence to the point. Fig. 170 is 2 inches 
wide at the handle with a blade 11 inches long. They are like 
the common carving knife and suggest the butcher knives to be 
used as bayonets. | | 
Fig. 72 is a large, flat and angular knife, made from a brass _ 
kettle, and found near Beaver lake, Lysander. Grooves and 
notches have been filed near the base, for secure attachment to 
the handle. Iron knives were so abundant that a makeshift like 
this is rare. 
Fig. 178 is a remarkable recent copper knife of moderate thick- 
ness, found by Mr Luke Fitch on Indian hill, Pompey. The 
form is that of a shoemaker’s knife, and it has a tang for inser- 
tion. Iron knives are frequent there but this is the only copper 
one the writer has seen. 
