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Fig. 220 is in the same collection and from the same place. It is 

 large for this form, and slightly expands toward the top. Toward 

 the point it is quite thick. 



Fig. 219 is from the Atwell fort, and therefore not far from 300 

 years old. It is in the Burr collection at Cazenovia, and is both 

 small and simple. Its importance is in giving a date to these simple 

 forms. Fig. 223 is in the state museum, and is from Genesee county. 

 It is small, angular and slender, and has no barb or knob. A broken 

 one was with this. Fig. 228 is from West Bloomfield and in the 

 Hildburgh collection. It is quite slender for its size. Two more 

 are in the same cabinet and from the same place, one being broken. 

 These are also quite recent. 



Fig. 224 is a broken hook found by Dr Hinsdale at Brewerton. 

 It has a projection at the top, but its great interest is in showing 

 part of the initial perforation near the curve. This proves it to 

 have been broken in making, which is hardly a matter of surprise 

 when the crosscuts at the base are observed. The writer found 

 one of about the same size and as much broken, on the fort site 

 west of Baldwinsville. It can not be determined whether either of 

 these had barbs, but there are good reasons for thinking they did. 

 Fig. 225 is a large, sharp barb from a fort opposite the last men- 

 tioned, and south of Seneca river. It indicates a hook of very 

 large size and fine form. The writer sent this to Dr Rau after 

 his work was published, and he adopted the same view regarding 

 its character. The site was probably occupied after the middle of 

 the 16th century. 



Fig. 214 is the first barbed bone hook reported in New York, 

 and is a fine and perfect specimen, long in the Ledyard collection 

 and now in the state museum. It is wider than any fish hook yet 

 found, and came from the Atwell fort. The writer was so surprised 

 at its character, when he first saw it, that he took special pains to 

 verify the find. Dr Rail's figure is from his first drawing, made at 

 Mr Ledyard's house ; this one was made not long since, when it 

 was for some weeks in his hands. It is of bone, and not of horn, 

 as first supposed. This site is usually dated at about A. D. 1600, 

 and other things there show the influence of white men's imple- 

 ments, though there are no examples of their work or materials. 



