IMPLEMENTS IN THE RIVER DRIFT AT TRENTON, N. J. 207 
more square, with “ queer figures cut deeply into them.” We failed 
to trace these up, and give the rumor only as we heard it. For 
ourselves, we do not doubt the occurrence of such stones, but the 
“ queer figures” may not have been of human origin. The imple- 
ment which we represent in Fig. 36. is a mass of reddish brown 
stone, compact, laminated and susceptible of a high polish. It ap- 
pears to have been a hatchet with the handle “all in one.” The 
end of the blade has been extended beyond the back of the imple- 
ment, one inch and a half, giving the specimen a very knife-like 
appearance, The handle is three and one-quarter inches in length, 
Fig. 37. : 
and has been formed by cutting through one of the layers of the 
stone, thus making it much thinner than the rest of the implement 
along the “back” of the cutting portion. The specimen meas- 
ures, handle and blade included, along the back, nine and one-half 
inches ; along the front or edge, eleven and one-quarter inches. 
The cutting-edge has undoubtedly been chipped, and although the 
Specimen is now much water-worn, the flaking can still be seen 
extending along the whole edge. Had this specimen been found 
upon the surface of the ground no one would question its being a 
“relic;” and found where and as it was, we believe it to be a 
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