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were made. Quartzite rock was more largely used in the 
manufacture of weapons by the inhabitants of hut No. 1 than 
by the men who subsequently occupied the place. 
Some rougher axes and hammer-stones were found. These 
larger implements for rough work were chiefly made from 
diorite or quartzite, rocks better suited for standing heavy 
blows than the more fragile petrosilex and quartz. 
Among the objects from Bocabec are a number of skin- 
ning knives. Those which showed the most careful chipping 
were rectangular in outline, like some agate knives found on 
the St. John River. Several, however, were lunate or oval. 
The material used in the manufacture or these knives was 
either quartz or petrosilex, mostly the former. Numbers of 
stone flakes, chiefly of petrosilex, which had the form of 
rude knives, were found. Some of these, in their worn edges, 
gave evidence of having been used for cutting. These flakes 
are of various forms, some approaching scrapers in appear- 
ance, others are simply sharp flakes which do not appear to 
have been applied to any special use. The skinning-knives 
were made of quartz and petrosilex, but a large majority of 
the knife-flakes were formed of the latter rock. Quartzite 
knife-flakes were comparatively scarce, and came mostly from 
the shell-heap of hut bottom No. 1. 
The most curious stone implement found at Phil’s Beach 
was one obtained by Mr. Alexander Boyd, the proprietor of 
the place. This implement was unearthed from the kitchen- 
midden behind hut bottom A by Mr. Boyd, when he was 
removing shells to spread on his land. It consists of petro- 
silex rock, and in form resembles a short femur of a large 
reptile; it is smoothed by rubbing at each end, and may have 
been used as a slick-stone for softening skins. 
Other stone implements of a long oval form, which from 
their appearance are supposed to have been used as slick- 
stones, were found at hut bottom A. Here also we met with 
a long cylindrical stone which had probably been used as a 
pencil, for small facets have been formed on the end of it by 
rubbing. 
Scrapers in great numbers were found in the hut bottoms 
