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but differ in being destitute of any encircling groove or other 
-evidence of attachment. They are very common and were 
probably used, in connection with stone hammers or axes, 
for the splitting of trees. Among those, possessed by us is 
one which is rather unique in being composed of a beautiful 
dark green jade and very highly polished. It was found upon 
the shore of the St. John River below Spoon Island. 
Corn-Crushers. (Plate III. Figs. 2 and 3). These im- 
plements are so called from their form, resembling closely 
that of a pestle, and their weight, showing that they must 
have been employed for pounding or crushing. They are not 
of very common occurrence, the only two specimens known 
to us having come from the same locality, viz., the neighbour- 
hood of Grand Falls. The one now in our possession is 
twenty-one inches long and of cylindrical shape, having a 
general diameter of about three and a half inches, but having 
the larger or butt end rounded and the other narrowed just 
below its extremity to a sort of neck, apparently for 
convenience of handling. If is composed of a hard grey sand 
stone or quartzite and weighs not less than twelve pounds. 
Pendants or Net-Sinkers. (Plate II. Figs. 15-18). These 
objects were evidently designed for suspension, but whether 
for purposes of ornament or use, cannot always be readily 
determined. In general, however, their weight would suggest 
that they were employed for some other purpose than personal 
adornment, while their close resemblance in form to the 
modern plummet and to the sinkers used in fishing, render it 
possible that this was their chief use. Their general outline 
is pear-shaped, but while some are regularly rounded, others 
have more or less flattened parallel sides; and while some are 
broadest in the middle, tapering to either end, others, like 
plummets, are expanded below, and others again are bottle- 
shaped, possessing a distinct elongated square or quadrate 
neck. They all, however, possess the common feature of a 
groove around the narrow end, bordered externally by a sort 
of ring or collar, and thus adapting them to purposes of 
suspension. The material used is sometimes a fine hard 
sandstone, which has been shaped apparently by peeking, but 
