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eighths broad. From the Seneca River. Fig. 168 is a small and 

 deeply notched knife, of unusual form, one and five eighths inches 

 long. It is of dark grey slate, and was found at Brewerton. Fig. 

 169 is of dark slate, and is from the Oneida River. In its present 

 form it closely resembles some of the Eskimo knives, but it prob- 

 ably once had barbs which have been cut away. It is two and one 

 half inches long by one broad. Occasionally one seems to have 

 been broken and recut, leaving it unsymmetrical but strikingly like 

 some recent Eskimo knives. 



Fig. 170 is of red slate, shouldered, short and very broad. It is 

 from Jefferson County, and one and five eighths inches long by 

 one and one eighth wide. The notches are deep. Those of red 

 slate are often quite broad. They occur mostly on Lake Cham- 

 plain, but some are found south of Lake Ontario. 



Fig. 171 is of bluish slate, from the Seneca River, and has barbs. 

 It is two and three eighths inches long and one and one fourth 

 wide. This is a frequent form. Fig. 172 is of dark slate, from Chit- 

 tenango Creek, near Oneida Lake, and is three by one and three 

 eighths inches. Instead of coming to a more or less defined 

 medial ridge, it is sharply beveled from a plane surface to the edges. 

 It is shouldered, and the base has no lateral notches. Fig. 173 is 

 the smallest yet found, and is of grey slate, and one and one fourth 

 inches long by a little over half an inch broad. It is shouldered and 

 rather rude. This was found at Onondaga Lake. Fig. 174 is 

 omitted. 



Fig. 175 is of dark slate, somewhat barbed, and conspicuously 

 notched on the edges of the base. It is ground from the center to 

 the edges, like most others, and is three and three fourths inches 

 long by one and three eighths wide. This is from the Seneca River. 

 Fig. 176 is the handsomest yet found, and is from an island in the 

 Oneida River at Brewerton, where broken harpoons, as well as per- 

 fect ones, have been abundant. It is of grey slate, shouldered and 

 thin, finely polished, and with an unusually slender base and deep 

 notches. The base is finely finished and rounded. This fine knife 

 is two and seven eighths inches long by one and one eighth wide. 



