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process of basket-making, chisels, wedges with sharp edges 
of various sizes, a blunt-edged hatchet for driving down 
hoops of casks or wicker-work, blunt wedges, also, similar to 
those used by coopers for driving hoops, knives, a saw, and 
various other implements. There were also a number of sling- 
stones, spear-heads, and tomahawks, with dress-fastenings 
scattered about the field, showing that some few persons had 
been killed there. 
At another part of the same field I found an entire set of 
the supposed coopers’ tools, formed of red flint, all new. 
They are beautifully formed, but much larger in size than 
the others made of gray flint. These red tools were as 
entirely separate from the others as if the owners had lived 
miles apart. The most remarkable thing is, that these red 
tools appear never to have been used after they were made. 
They seem to express that the person who was to have used 
them had just come there to work with the other people, 
when he and they were attacked, and either killed or driven 
away, and never returned ; and it is certainly as strong a proof 
as could be discovered of the overwhelming character of the 
attack that was made upon them ; the evidence of fighting in 
the field cannot be considered to have been merely between 
themselves, or with other natives whom they were unfriendly 
with in the adjoining fields. If such had been the case, it 
is not probable that all would have been killed, or that they 
would have been driven out of the neighbourhood ; but it is 
quite certain that if only people had been fighting here who 
used flint implements, those who expelled the others would 
not have left their excellent tools upon the ground. Yet here 
were found both gray flint implements which had been much 
used, and red flint which appear not to have been used at all, 
lying on two distinct parts of the same field, with no remains 
of any enemy’s weapons. 
Nor can it be said that these tools were abandoned because 
