224 THE STONE AGE IN NEW JER?EY. 
does not give any other name to the specimens, nor suggest their 
probable particular use; we can only follow his example, as to : 
figure 80, and call it an ‘‘implement.” This certainly is an easy, — 
but scarcely satisfactory way of escaping a trouble, which perhaps _ 
is little bettered by the suggestion that just such a chipped 
flint may not, by its original owner, have been specially set apart 
for particular use or uses, but have been a sort of “ handy come — 
by,” valuable to crush a mussel, or crack a marrow bone, but never — 
designated by its first possessor, as either the one or the other 
Indeed, would not a people whose advancement was but thus 
Fig. 80. 
Natural size. : ic 
progressed—a stone-age people—be limited in the variety í 
plements, and adepts in the art of multiplying uses | 
simple article? 
Perrorarrp Sroxes.— In the fourth volume of the A 
Narvrauisr, page 880, we have described and figured | 
formed “relic” found near Trenton. We now know -a 
are frequently found in the west, and since the publication 
‘notice of our Jersey specimen, a figure of an allied 
from Vermont, has been published on page 16, of oe 
(1871). Figs. 81, 81a, is an ornament. or « gorget 
and Davis) found in the same field with the 
