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in grinding them. The chief peculiarity of this specimen is in the 
form of the lower side, which instead 
of being more or less convex, as in 
almost all other specimens, is ground 
in a series of planes, so that in 
cross section it has the form of 2a. 
These surfaces are flat and even, 
and the edges sharp and true. The 
groove is very deep and wide. The 
length of this specimen is 4.75 
inches; width, just above the edge, 
1.66 inch. This is the only speci- 
men which shows no curved sur- 
faces, except the groove, that I have 
seen. In some specimens there is 
a flat space running longitudinally 
through the middle of the back, 
but usually even this is convex, OF 
raised into a sharp ridge; many 
others are flat on the upper side, 
but in all some of the surfaces are 
convex, In figure 3 we have 
another variety of gouge, in which, 
as in the foregoing, the groove ©X- 
tends throughout the length, but in 
this case each end is brought to an 
edge, and the sides do not converge 
=e aS at one end, as in the specimens thus 
Fic. 2.—Indian Gouge. Reduced %, far mentioned, but are parallel, and 
the groove is of equal width throughout. One end, as the figure 
shows, is broken. The under side is very regularly convex. The 
material is basalt, and the surfaces are pretty well finished. The 
length is 5.65 inches ; width 1 inch. Col. Whittlesey figures on Pas® 
117 of the “ Ohio Centennial Report,” what he calls a “ gouge-form 
skinner,” which is somewhat like the above, and mentions three 
other Ohio specimens which he has seen. Although gouges 
in which the groove extends through the entire length are not 
uncommon, yet this is not the form of nearly all such implements. 
More have a groove which extends only a short distance from the 
edge. Figures 4 and 5 show the opposite sides of one of this 
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