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Inches, and from three to five inches in breadth, the butt-end 
being an inch or. more in thickness, but with a more less 
•defined encircling groove for the attachment of a handle. In 
addition to the differences of form, they also differ from the 
articles previously noticed, in having been shaped by pecking 
or grinding rather than by flaking, their surfaces being always 
smooth and occasionally somewhat polished. The cutting 
edge is usually dull or even rounded. The material of their 
construction is also different from that of the arrow and lance- 
heads, being composed usually of hard sandstone or quartzite, 
and occasionally of grey syenite, but in no instance of either 
pure quartz, jasper or chalcedony. 
They are all oval in section, but in some the oval is greatly 
flattened, the maximum thickness not exceeding an inch, and 
bevelled to either end as well as to the sides; others exhibit a 
very thick or rounded butt, and from this taper abruptly to 
the cutting edge, thus combining, as in many modern imple- 
ments, the use of the axe and hammer. 
Lance and Spear-Heads. (Plate II. Figs. 1 , 5 and 10). 
The articles included under this head bear much resemblance 
to some of the forms of arrow-heads above described, both in 
general form and in material, but differ in being usually of 
considerably larger size, with a tendency to more elongated 
shapes, and less perfect accuracy of outline. They occur 
both with and without stems, and occasionally are notched 
at the base, those with stems having been perhaps fastened by 
mere insertion, and the notched forms with the assistance of 
thongs. Red and black jasper would seem to have been the 
favourite materials in their construction; but one very beau- 
tiful specimen in our collection, from the Tobique River, is 
a clear and almost transparent vitreous quartz, irregularly 
clouded with dark intersecting veins. It has a diameter at 
the base of two and a half inches, and is distinctly stemmed. 
Like the arrow-heads, these articles have all been made by a 
process of flaking. 
Cutting Implements. (Plate III. Fig. 12). Among 
the specimens possessing a general lance-like form, are some 
of which the size and w T eight suggest that they may have been 
