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being mostly upon one side, the other being the weather-worn surface of 

 the stone, from which the specimen was made. 



From observations of thousands of Atlantic coast specimens, I am 

 led to believe that the so-called arrowheads of this and many other 

 patterns, when they exceed the measurement of Fig. 10, were put to other 

 uses, probably being utilized as cutting-tools. If there is nothing to guide 

 one, however, in determining the particular uses of the various stone imple- 

 ments found in a given locality, it is scarcely safe to form an opinion based 

 upon our own capabilities in the use of the tools and weapons once wielded 

 by savage man. Arrowheads of much larger size than Fig. 10 have been 

 found by the writer under such circumstances as to at once suggest the 

 bow as the projecting instrument rather than the arm, as in thrusting a 

 lance. Weight, perhaps, rather than size should be considered, and modern 

 iron-tipped arrows have their metallic points much heavier than some 

 spear (?) heads of twice the size of Fig. 10, to which we have referred as 

 being probably of the maximum size of an arrowpoint. 



Figs. 6, 11, and 12, same plate, represent the ordinary triangular 

 arrowheads, these specimens having slightly concave bases. They are 

 all of flint, of dark color, and in workmanship exhibit no particular skill, as 

 compared with specimens of this pattern from other localities. It is, in fact, 

 a very common form wherever arrowheads are found,* at least in this 

 country, the majority of such specimens varying solely in being of some- 

 what larger size. 



Figs. 7, 13, and 14, Plate III, are additional examples of this pattern, 

 but with slight modifications, the principal of which is the concavity of the 

 base being a more distinctive feature. In the foregoing specimens this con- 

 cavity is so slight that it may have been accidental, but it is unquestionably 

 intentional in the latter. Fig. 13 is otherwise noticeable for its great length 

 as compared with the breadth. Its shape and lightness both suggest the 

 arrowpoint rather than a cutting tool. Fig. 14 varies from the preceding 

 in having distinctly convex sides, and by this feature more nearly ap- 



* Ancient Stone Implements of Great Britain, p. 348, fig. 332. London, 1872. (In England it 

 seems that this form is of rare occurrence; but it is, I judge, more common on the Continent.) See also 

 Nature, vol. vi, p. 392, London, 1872, for a comparison of English and American forms as to variety of 

 shapes and skill in workmanship. 



