ground down on both of the flat faces; hatchets ("tomahawks") of
green stone, flint, and diorite, from five to eight inches long, with
rounded faces and sides, contracted to an edge at one end, and to a
flat heel at the other; a wedge of black slate, seven inches long and
half an inch thick, of a square finish on the faces and sides and at
the heel, which was diminished two inches, as compared with the length
of the edge; hatchets with a serrated edge at each end, plane on both
sides, convex on one face and flat on the other.

With one skeleton was deposited a "set of tools," eight in number, of
the species of rock before mentioned, varying in length from two to
eight inches. Their peculiarity consists in a variety of shapes--no
two being precisely alike--and in their fitness to various uses,
such as carving, hacking, paring, and grooving. The smallest of them,
having a square finish, was held by the thumb and two fingers, and is
suitable for cutting lines and figures in wood and shells. Specimens
of this art were furnished from the mound. The largest number might
serve for hatchets, chisels, and gouges. One had been ground in the
form of a cylinder five inches long and an inch thick, and then cut
an inch on two sides to an edge, and worked into a handle with a round
bead, from the center of the elliptical faces. It might be used for
chipping wood and stone. One answered the purpose of a cold chisel;
another was somewhat similar, but had a hollow face reduced to a
curved edge for grooving. These polished instruments, wrought with
much care, seemed intended for use by the hand rather than for
insertion in a handle or socket, or attachment to a shaft by means
of a strap or withe. Only one was perforated. The drilling through
granite, quartz, and diorite, without the use of metal, was a severe
labor, even for savage patience. A long knife of silex, with a wrought
handle, lance heads, leaf shaped, of the same material, of beautiful
workmanship, arrow points of fine finish, furnished, with others
before mentioned, an assortment of arms. Several flint points, though
only an inch long, were curved like a cimeter, and used probably as
flaying instruments. True disks, of various mineral substances, from
an inch to five inches in diameter, having convex faces, complete the
list of stone implements. Those of bone comprise several like hollow
chisels, sharpened at one end, and pierced through one face, near the
other extremity, s