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lent example — are very curiously chipped or worn. It 
seems as though the original owner of No. 29, wishing 
without breaking up or spoiling for use that implement, 
to have certain chips to turn into other smaller imple- 
ments, had simply struck the required flakes from the side 
of the big implement. It is not difficult to imagine that 
the flakes which have apparently been removed, very 
cleanly, from No. 29, may have been used for ar- 
row points or for similar small implements. The re- 
markable thing, however, is that this economical arrange- 
ment should have obtained in Barbados, where there is 
every reason to believe that an abundance of shells, ma- 
terial for any number of implements, were at hand. It has 
indeed been suggested that these fractures of the surface 
of implements, as in the example brought forward, are 
not due to any intentional removal of flakes but are 
caused by rubbing, the implement having, according to 
this theory, been used as a sort of grindstone (hone ?), on 
the flat surface of which, unimportant enough to the 
main use of the implement, the cutting edges of narrow 
chisel-like implements have been ground. But a close 
inspection of the clean edged fractures shows, plainly 
enough I think, that they were caused by the sudden re- 
moval of flakes. This removal of flakes may of 
course not have been intentional, may have been 
caused by blows accidentally received ; but where, as 
in our example, a number of these flakes have been re- 
moved, side by side, from one implement, it is, I think, 
safe to infer that the removal can not have been acci- 
dental. 
The following remarks by the Rev. GREVILLE J. CHES- 
TER, published by Mr. Stevens in his " Flint Chips' 3 
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