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rate the spears. Fig. 72 is a beautiful specimen of a spearhead 
of a kind of flint, and mineralogically is unlike any other specimen 
in our collection. It is the leaf-form of arrowhead enlarged and 
is of fine workmanship. As a weapon it must have been valuable, 
but it is difficult to conceive how it could have been sufficiently 
securely attached to a long shaft. It is little less than five inches 
in length, by two and one-eighth in breadth. We have never met 
with another specimen that was like it in all particulars, size in- 
cluded, but have seen them in collections Fig. 73. 
made elsewhere in the United States and 
in South America. Lip 
= Laycenraps.—Fig. 73 is a representa- 
~ tive of an average specimen of those long, 
slender, finely edged slates, which we here 
denominate as ‘“lanceheads.” They are 
never wrought with that care which char- 
A 
acterizes arrow and spearheads, but still O ot 
have had sufficient care bestowed upon Se Af 
them to show that they were for some im- i 
portant purpose. They are very abundant, be- 
Scattered promiscuously over the whole y 
state, and turn up at odd times, every AN 
Where and anywhere. Along the shores of oon 
_ Our creeks and from the bottom of the Del- (ewe a 
Aware River, upland and lowland, it seems Ki 
to make no differençe as to the character ai 
of the piace, here or there, they are equally mmaa. 
> We cannot now remember how C D 
_ Many specimens of them we inclided in a ETE 
‘ tion sent in the summer to London, but we believe that 
i they, with the pile now before us, would number nearly a hun- 
dred. We have intimated that they were only of slate—this is 
— 80. The “deposit” of which we have spoken already, of jas- 
P specimens, of which the large hatchet figured was one, was 
“omposed of “ lanceheads” very similar to this slate here figured. 
As all these « slate” specimens have a well defined, blunt base, 
thought that the handle or shaft must have been here 
TRP &, and if so, then we cannot look upon them as anything 
than lances or javelins. The majority of ‘the jasper deposit” 
referred to also had this same feature of a well defined base. 
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