Stone Implements of the Aborigines of Australia 
and some other countries. 
By the Rev. Perer MacPuersoy, M.A. 
[Read before the Royal Society of N.S.W., 4 November, 1885.] 
THE following © is a list of the stone implements of aboriginal 
tribes exhibited to-night by the writer on the table of the Society. 
New Sout WA tgs. 
f¥ 18 hatchets from the Bogan, the Hunter, the rhesgiee the 
Williams, Lake Macquarie, Tilligerry Creek, and the Coas 
1 chi ast. 
1 sharpening-stone, the Bogan. 
1 pounding-stone, the Bogan 
water-worn stones, which appear to have been partially 
i Saal for hatchets—two from the cst Brook, near Aberdeen, 
and one from Taree, on the Manning Riv 
1 ate -worn stone from the channel of thé Hunter. 
VICTORIA. 
1 hatchet, chipped ; neither ground nor polished. 
Also some flakes from aboriginal quarries. 
TASMANIA. 
Number of flakes and chippings. 
New HEprives. 
9 hatchets from Erromanga. 
GENERAL REMARKS, 
(2 A few remarks may be made on these implements. A select 
class of four of the hatchets si be picked out as — very 
serviceable instruments. They are of close-grained stone, and take 
on a fine polish. Two of them are oat a deep black sata ‘the othe 
