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have been found to consider them as we have done above, rather 
than as adzes, hatchets or ungrooved axes. 
The specimens that we have described so far have been all ordi- 
nary surface-found specimens— with one exception—and we can- 
not see that their use was less apparent for that fact, although a 
damper is thrown on one’s ardor in collecting them, when Sir John 
Lubbock assures us that ‘‘ those found singly in this manner have 
Fig. 29. 
1-2 natural size. ea 1-2 natural size. 
comparatively little scientific value;” but we have not alone met 
with specimens thus singly found, but have met with several in- 
stances where quite large deposits of “axes” have been encoun- 
tered in digging cellars and similar excavations. For what purpose 
this was done, nothing about ‘the find” gave any clue. It was only 
probable that for the sake of concealment from enemies or other 
purpose, a considerable excavation had been made and these axes 
therein deposited. In one case, in digging a cellar in Trenton, N. 
J., one-hundred and twenty were found. Again, in excavating the 
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