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Hatchets made of flint are very various in shape and size. 
I have already mentioned a small-sized hatchet which was 
used in fighting ; there are other small hatchets which were 
evidently made for cutting off small willow sticks for wicker- 
work, and a specially small kind, carefully made, which 
appears to have been intended to sever the ends of the 
willows after the basket, or other object of their art, was put 
together ; the cutting edge of these is not more than an inch 
wide. Some hatchets are large sized and nearer our 
modern shape, sharp at the edge, and heavy enough to cut 
off a large piece of wood. 
The hatchet which I found with the carpenter's tools is a 
thin flake, chipped over the upper side, and sharpened at the 
edge, with a shank formed by cutting out a right angle with 
the blade to fasten the handle on to. Another kind of 
hatchet is similar to a wedge, which probably was the origin 
of the invention, as flint readily splits into the form of a 
wedge, with an exceedingly sharp cutting edge. 
CHISELS. 
The primitive shape of the chisel was very different to the 
form that was afterwards emploj^ed. I described one that I 
found partly rubbed down to sharpen the edge, and cut an 
exact chisel shape, as we now see chisels made of iron which 
are used by stone masons ; but at the earliest period, when 
flint was the material of which they were made, they were 
only intended to chip wood with. 
The first shape of the chisel was, undoubtedly, a rather 
long wedge. This form was varied by cutting two slices of 
flint off a core, in a sKghtly triangular pointed form, and 
then severing the chisel complete from the block, which left 
a broad head to strike upon, and a sharp edge, an inch wide, 
to chip with. This kind is found of various sizes. 
I have found numerous small chisels, an inch to an inch 
