154 . THE STONE AGE IN NEW JERSEY. 
cent brown jasper specimen (Fig. 22). There we have a carefully 
chipped hatchet, well edged on all sides, of a nearly perfect oy: 
est length, six inches; and scant three-quarters of an inch 
greatest thickness. This specimen is one of one hundred and fifty 
dow near Trenton, N. J. The one figured is somewhat shorter 
and broader than the others, which might have been hatchets or 
lance heads.* They were buried points up, and were surrounded — 
Natural size. 
in position, had they been placed at the time on the surface. 
men similar to those in this “deposit.” The bulk of t 
tion was presented to the Philadelphia Academy ; and after 
were stolen from that institution, the remainder were aepo» 
safe keeping with the American Philosophical Society, ¥ 
now are. Figures 23 and 24 we have also designated as 
although the specimen (Fig. 24) is marvellously like the + 
scraper, as figured in Sir John Lubbock’s « Prehistomi 
(3d ed., page 93, figs. 105-7), though just double the: as 
