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[Haynes. 
our land. Wherever the Indian has lived you have only to 
search and you are sure to find in great quantities his well-made 
stone arrow-points and lance-heads, either whole or broken ; 
everywhere profusely scattered about you see the flakes produced 
in fabricating them, all showing on one side the “ bulb of percus- 
sion,” and on the other the marks where previous flakes have been 
detached, which, combined, establish incontestably their human 
origin ;. or equally common are the fragments of their character- 
istic, rude, hand-made pottery ; while occasionally there comes 
to light a stone tomahawk, or gouge, or chisel, all equally 
skillfully made. But no such traces of Indian occupation has the 
most pains-taking investigation revealed to me in many places 
where I have found the new types of rude implements in consid- 
erable quantities. I am well aware that over our whole country 
there are to be found, associated with the ordinary Indian remains, 
certain roughly-chipped stone implements, of which the so-called 
“ shoe-shaped ” type of celt is an example, which by some have 
been regarded as u palaeolithic ” implements. Better informed 
observers, however, consider all such objects as only unfinished 
examples of ordinary Indian implements, merely blocked out, and 
intended to have more labor bestowed upon them subsequently. 
Some of these objects I have here for purposes of comparison ; but I 
think it will be found upon examination that they differ greatly 
in character and appearance from these new types of my discovery. 
So also you will remember that Mr. F. W. Putnam exhibited 
here last winter a number of interesting specimens of implements, 
recently discovered by Mr. David Dodge in Wakefield, about ten 
miles north of Boston, which Mr. Putnam called “ rude palaeo- 
lithic forms,” but which he hesitated to pronounce “ true palae- 
olithic implements.” I have visited this locality in Wakefield 
several times, and have found there many of the same rudely 
fashioned objects made of felsite, some of which are before yon, 
and I certainly cannot regard these as in any proper sense “ palae- 
olithic implements.” In the same fields in which I found them I 
came upon numerous arrow-heads and lance-points and some 
skin-scrapers, all of the ordinary Indian types, together with such 
an abundance of flakes as to prove clearly that this was the site 
of an Indian work-shop for the manufacture of stone objects, as 
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