294 Examination of Indian Graves in Chester Co., Pa. (May, 
as shown in many examples where the surface of fracture remains. 
In others, the unarmed side is finished uniformly, as in Fig. 9, 
where the simple edge runs from base to point, but we may infer 
that a workman would economize a broken specimen by shaping 
it anew, as basal and terminal halves are turned into scrapers. 
Want of symmetry in the barbs occurs in the short sub-trian- 
gular forms (Fig. 11) which are often of large size, with one 
prominent barb—forms probably intended for fish-gigs. 
Mr. Ch. C. Jones (Antiquities, p. 266-7) does not figure abnor- 
mal forms, which he regards “as examples rather of misfortune 
than of original design.” But even failures are worthy of record, 
and some of the forms may have been adapted to a purpose. 
Figs. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, East Tennessee (L. and F. A. Stratton); Fig. 
3, an obtuse-angled triangular form, with all the edges sharp; the 
base or shortest side in some specimens slightly convex; prob- 
ably knives and scrapers; white quartz; Chester county, Pa. (H. 
R. Kervey); in the one figure the base is longer than usual. Fig. 
5 resembles an equilateral form, in one side of which an indenta- 
tion had been made to adapt it for scraping, or for tying it toa 
handle; black flint, Fig. 7, Liberty county Ga. (Dr. J. L. Le 
Conte.) Fig. 8, Pennsylvania (?). Fig. 9, Arkansas (?). Fig. 10, 
Bainbridge, Lancaster county, Pa. (F. G. Galbraith); the longest 
edge is dulled and smoothed by use, as if in polishing or scraping 
the inside of earthenware. Fig. 11, Tallahassee, Fla.; white 
semi-opal (C. N. Haldeman). The figures are of the size of the 
originals, 
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EXAMINATION OF INDIAN GRAVES IN CHESTER 
OUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. 
BY EDWIN A. BARBER. 
N the year 1824 there appeared in the Village Record, at West 
Chester, then edited by Charles Miner, Esq., a long and 
elaborate series of communications written, evidently, after 
careful research and personal inquiry, by Joseph J. Lewis, 
Esq., then a young law-student, and now one of the most 
distinguished members of the bar of Chester County. In 
1 Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania, By Sherman Day. Phila., 
1843. e 
