158 THE STONE AGE IN NEW JERSEY. 
inches long and about three wide. Others occur somewhat 
but there is no other important variation. Occasionally, an 
usually shaped stone will be found to have been utilized as a 1 
mer, having required but li 
Fig. 26. 
with a handle about one 
of its total length; it has 
a sort of edge, never 
than one-quarter of an inch in 
width, chipped upon it. ` 
handle has been som 
ground down, but not 
in any degree. Secure 
ened to a handle, this b 
well directed, would give an opponent a fearful blow, 
imagine they were not 
used as weapons, but 
as hammers only; and 
this belief is the more 
strengthened by the 
equally abundant pres- 
ence of partially pol- 
ished, oval cobble stones, 
which we believe can be 
best designated, consid- 
ering all things, as 
Cuisets.— Such a 
chisel is that illustrated 
here (Fig. 29). This 
specimen consists of a 
Stone that has had a beau- 
tiful cutting edge ground 
at one end, and two-thirds 
of one surface has been 
split smoothly off, making it, not a hollow gouge, bakit 
chisel. The under surface is oval, rocking to an 
while lying on that side. A sufficient number of suc 
Natural size. 
Fig. 27. 
a 
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Natural size. 
