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family, or even any house-community of them, possessed 
any very large number of these implements. So that it is, 
on the whole, improbable that any large " find" of the Ca- 
rib implements has ever been, or will ever be made. The 
value then of the present collection lies, not in showing 
a more or less complete set of the implements probably in 
use at some particular time by a certain set of people 
[though it is probable that all the men were Caribs], 
but in that it contains a large number of single ex- 
amples of very finely wrought forms. 
It has been said that the ' celts' are twenty in number. 
But this general term ' celts,' applied, I think exclusively, 
to wedge-shaped implements, includes a number of 
slightly various forms which it is somewhat difficult, and 
yet desirable, to distinguish in words. * Axe, hatchet, 
chisel, gouge, adze, wedge, and even hoe, are among the 
many names, most of them pointing to distinct uses, 
which are too often vaguely chosen and bestowed on one 
and another of these implements. It is a pity that the 
word axe has ever been used in connection with 
stone implements ; for it has created a troublesome 
amount of misconception in the lay mind, and to the stu- 
dent it is obvious that an axe of stone is practically 
impossible. It would be very desirable therefore to ob- 
* Mr. E. T. Stevens, in his " Flint Chips" (p. 237) notes that he has 
there (used the term " hatchet" for all stone implements of a simple 
wedge-like form. Many, doubtless were used in the hand ; others were 
mounted as hatchets, but, probably, more frequently as adzes. The 
term axe has been applied exclusively to grooved or drilled stone im. 
plements ; these were mounted at right angles to the handle.) To me 
it seems that the word ' hatchet' is as objectionable, and for exactly the 
same reasons, as is axe. Moreover, no grooved, still less any drilled, 
ftone implement, can have been used as an axe, 
