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any indication of a regular mesh, or of the existence of 
knots where the cords crossed, which, if they existed, as 
they must have in a net, could not have failed to be rep- 
resented. | 
Implements. It is somewhat remarkable that with the 
exception of the shell-heaps at Salisbury, all of those here 
described yielded so few articles made of stone. At Mount 
Desert only two arrow-heads were found, at Crouch’s Cove 
Mr. Swann found a pestle, and Mr. Morse a rude chisel, 
both picked up on the shore, but probably washed out 
from among the shells. At Eagle Hill, Mr. Putnam 
found a spherical stone with a groove around it, but at 
Cotuit Port not a single piece of worked stone was dis- 
covered. In regions adjoining the different shell depos- 
its, especially at Cotuit Port, an abundance of stone im- 
plements have been found, and those who have preceded 
us have occasionally obtained some from the heaps. In 
the Danish heaps, they seem to have been quite common, 
and Mr. Rau found them so at Keyport. 
Implements of bone, on the other hand, are quite abun- 
nt, as were also fragments of bone showing the marks 
of the instruments by which pieces had been detached, 
and of such there was a considerable variety. Some of 
the bones were cut across by making a groove around the 
‘circumference, as one would cut a notch in a stick, and 
breaking the rest ; and others, as the metatarsal bones of 
the elk and deer, were split lengthwise, by making a groove 
on each side nearly to the marrow cavity, and completing 
the division by fracture. The roughly striated surface of 
the groove, and its undulating course indicate a piece of 
stone, and not a saw, as the instrument with which the 
work was done. We have found by experiment that this 
mode of working bone does not prove so great a labor 
