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Occasionally one is found unfinished, like a regularly cylindric 

 one from Jefferson County, which is six and three fourths inches 

 long, and not polished. The hole is one and three fourths inches 

 deep, and seems to have been drilled with flint, as it tapers to a point. 

 A cylindric one of striped olive slate is from Onondaga, and is 

 eight and three eighths long by one and one eighth inches thick. 

 Another of green striped slate is from Cayuga County, one side 

 being flat and the rest convex. The orifice is unusually small; not 

 over a quarter of an inch. It is three inches long by one and one 

 half thick. A curved tube comes from Chaumont, and is three and 

 one half long by one and one fourth inches broad. Other tubes 

 have also been found in Jefferson County. 



One from Saratoga is three and one half by two and one half 

 inches, an unusual proportion here. A cylindric one of striped 

 slate from Brewerton, is four and three fourths by one and one 

 half inches. A very long one of green striped slate, from near 

 Albany, is n inches long, if correctly reported. This would be an 

 unusual size in this material. 



Some tubes are very small, and a cylindric one of striped olive 

 slate, from Seneca Lake is two and one half inches by less than one. 

 An unfinished tube from Cross Lake is four by one and five eighths 

 inches. The boring is uniform to the depth of one and five eighths 

 inches, showing circular grooves. It is of picked greenstone. 



Out of 73 tubes Mr. Douglass had none from New York. 



BAYONET SLATES 



For want of a better this term is applied to a small class of rare 

 implements, probably of a ceremonial kind. Very few have been 

 found. They are slender, and nearly or quite parallel sided and 

 triangular in section. One found in Vermont is seven and one 

 eighth by one and one eighth inches, and has no shouldered base. 

 Another has been found in Canada closely resembling this in form 

 and size. Two others come from Onondaga County, and are 

 probably the finest known, as they seem to complete the list. 



Fig. 131 is a very fine example of this rare article, and the largest 

 yet found. It is reduced for illustration, but is eight and seven 



