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skin, and yet of sufficient edge and hardness to permit a stout 
jerking blow. It was grasped firmly by the top. It was often 
very rude, and, indeed, was no more than an elongated stone, 
small, and brought to a blunt edge." This implement was used 
for removing the adhering flesh, &c., prior to currying the skins 
of animals killed in the chase. 
A 44. 
Nos. I and 6 are stone hatchets found in the United States. 
Nos. 2 to 5, and 7 to 14, are stone hatchets found in Ohio.^' 
No. 7 has straight sides ; Nos, 9, 10, and 14 are flat on the 
under side. No. 15 is a flint tool of the hatchet form, from 
Ohio. It is quite small, being only one inch and five-eighths 
in length, and one inch and a quarter in breadth ; it is the 
only implement of flint of a hatchet shape in the Squier and 
Davis collection. Nos. 16 to 18 are small hatchets of 
haematite, from Ohio. No. 18 appears to be unfinished. Nos. 
19 to 22 f are stone chisels from Ohio. No. 20 is a fine and 
nicely-finished implement ; it is ten inches and a quarter in 
length, and one inch and three-eighths in breadth. No. 22 is 
four inches in length, and an inch and a quarter in breadth. 
No. 21 is of a totally difl"erent form to the other chisels ; it is 
five inches in length, the cutting edge being only half an inch ; 
the butt-end is left broad and large, apparently to adapt it for 
use in the hand ; at this part the tool is about an inch and 
one-eighth in diameter. No. 23 is a greenstone hatchet, from 
Ohio. 
A 45- 
No. I is a thin, lanceolate-shaped implement of chert. It 
measures about fourteen inches in length, five and a quarter in 
breadth, about three quarters of an inch in thickness, and is 
fashioned entirely by chipping. This kind of implement is 
* The following hatchets are of greenstone: — Nos. 2, 5, 6, 7* 8, iij 12, 
and 13. The following are of felspathic greenstone : — Nos. 3 and 4. The 
following are of felstone : — Nos. 9 and 14. No. 10 is of quartzose greenstone. 
No. I is of whetslate. 
+ Nos. 20 and 22 are of greenstone. No, 21 is of felspathic greenstone. 
No. 19 is of felstone. 
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