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friends probably in most of the islands. Partly from 
his own lands, partly through the gifts of many friends, 
he has collected a very large and fine set of West Indian 
implements of stone and shell ; but many of his speci- 
mens are, at the present moment, packed away and de- 
posited in various more or less inaccessible ways. Fifty- 
four of his finest examples he, however, has most kindly 
brought together and sent me. These now lie on the 
table at which I am writing. Thirty-three of the exam- 
ples are of stone, twenty-one of shell. 
The stone implements are from the islands of St. Vincent, 
St. Kitts, Nevis, St. Lucia, and Antigua; andincludetwenty 
variously formed implements which, for want of a better gen- 
eral term, may be called 'celts'; ten variously shaped poun- 
ders, or rather mullers, generally supposed to have been 
used for grinding, or rubbing down corn (maize) ; one 
mortar with a corresponding pestle ; and one pebble of 
which it seems doubtful if it ever was used by human 
beings. It is a remarkable fact that in so large a collection 
brought together in Barbados not one implement of stone 
should have been derived actually from that island.* On 
the other hand, sixteen of the shell implements are from 
Barbados, while the other five are from Nevis, while none 
of the other islands contribute any implements of this 
material to the collection. 
* The Rev. Greville Chester, quoted by Stevens in " Flint 
Chips " (pp. 235-6) writes " In Barbados there is no hard stone, nothing 
harder than coralline lime stone ; the aborigines therefore were obliged 
to import hard stone implements and weapons from the other islands, 
or from the main continent of South America. ... I have several 
well-made implements, of hard green and black stone, found in Barba- 
dos. . . also a small and beautifully formed implement in the shape 
of a knife, made of yellowish alabaster." 
