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which I shall have more to say, from Guiana, it has two 
small nicks, one on each side, near the top, which are 
probably intended to allow of its being lashed firmly to a 
wooden handle. It is certainly in one sense one of the 
most elaborate stone-implements known to me ; but it is 
obvious that it belongs entirely to the practical, rather 
than the ornamental, class. 
Plates 3 & 4 represent different views of a single, very 
large and very curious, stone-implement. At the risk of 
apparent levity, it must be described as like a cocked- 
hat in stone ; and it is of corresponding size. The 
upper surface (when the stone is in the position shown 
in Plate 3) is concave, but the cavity is not very 
deep. The two ends (one of which is partly broken 
away) are carved to represent the heads of animals. The 
first and chief question suggested by this stone is, what 
can possibly have been its purpose ? Only a very 
vague answer can be given to this. No other example 
exactly corresponding to this is known to me. But 
certain stone objects which resemble this in all but 
one important feature have been found in other parts 
of the West Indies. The feature in which these 
differ from the example here figured is that they do not 
end below in a point, but are provided with four legs, 
so that they are in fact known as ' stone-tables.' There 
are several examples of these (H. it. Nos. 5 to 7) in 
the Blackmore Museum. These were brought from St. 
Domingo ; and the writer of the museum catalogue 
suggests that they were used for bruising grain ; that 
they were, in fact, mortars in which grain was pounded. 
The moment 1 saw these stone-tables I was struck by 
