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kitchen-middens and hut bottoms were made. Quartzite rock 
was more largely used in the manufacture of weapons by the 
inhabitants of hut No. i 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 
rock 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 skinning- 
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 of 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 appearance, others are 
simply sharp flakes which do not appear to have been applied to 
any use. The skinning-knives were made of quartz and petro- 
silex, 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. i. 
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 petrosilex 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 cylindri- 
cal 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 of 
this village site, but they w T ere as imperfectly made as they were 
