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with a tubular drill, and this was interrupted when a depth of but an 

 eighth of an inch had been reached, leaving a core in the center. 

 The implement is thick and heavy, somewhat hatchet-shaped, the 

 blades being about equal on either side, and it is six and three 

 eighths wide by two inches deep. This is from the Seneca River, 

 and not from a village site, in which it agrees with some other 

 specimens. 



Fig. 193 is one of the frequent reel shaped articles, and is nearly 

 perfect. The material is olive brown striped slate, three and five 

 eighths wide by two inches deep. The orifice is half an inch wide. 

 This form expands gradually to the center, and the terminal inden- 

 tations are beveled to a moderately sharp edge. Quite often the 

 upper and lower edges are grooved throughout, but this one has a 

 plain surface. It comes from Lysander. 



Fig. 200 is one of the most beautiful of these articles, and comes 

 from Fabius or Pompey, much resembling one in the State Museum 

 from that vicinity. It is made of a beautiful olive green striped 

 slate, and in form is like a slender pickaxe, having a central ridge 

 along both sides, from end to end. Each end has a slight projec- 

 tion. In the center,' on one side, is a partially effaced ornament. 

 It is seven inches wide by one and one fourth deep, and the orifice 

 is nine sixteenths of an inch in diameter. No finer example of this 

 form is on record. 



Fig. 201 is a pick-shaped article of black slate, unique in some 

 respects. The center is enlarged by a distinct concave sweep on 

 either side, terminating in a central flattened surface. Near this is 

 a lateral perforation on either hand, drilled precisely as in the gor- 

 gets. No other has been reported with holes like these, and if the 

 stone had been placed on a staff, they might have served to attach 

 pendent ornaments. The sides are covered with transverse lines, 

 suggesting tallies. The blades are thin, and the total length is six 

 inches, with a depth of one and one fourth inches. It was found 

 on a camp site on the Seneca River in 1875. The ends are abrupt, 

 and may be either broken or unfinished. 



Fig. 202 is a thick, crescent formed banner stone from Skaneateles 

 Lake, made of green striped slate, and one inch deep by three and three 



