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W. W. Tooker, (Sag Harbor, N.Y.) [[strikethrough]]Dec. 18/88.[[/strikethrough]]

[[handwritten]]writes as follows:[[/handwritten]]

[[handwritten]]"[[/handwritten]]A notched stone axe [[superscript]][[handwritten]]has been[[/handwritten]][[/superscript]] found at the foot of a bluff, Conklin's Pt., in Sag Harbor, N.Y.  [[strikethrough]]"[[/strikethrough]] The number of [[underlined]]notched[[/underlined]] axes that have been found in this locality is probably about 12 or 13, of which the writer possesses six.  They are not as common as the ordinary grooved axes or plain celts.  x  x  In every case they have been found in gullies worn down by rains or melting snows, or advances of the ocean upon the land.  These gullies are not in open fields, but in high bluffs facing the water.  These bluffs are composed mostly of sand, pebbles and marl, with sometimes a strata of clay.  In one instance on Montank, I saw one of these axes taken [[underlined]]in situ[[/underlined]] from an almost solid bank of clay and marl.  Another that was found in same locality but some miles removed from the other, was embedded solid in a bank of clay, that had been uncovered by the waves of the ocean.  In no instance, as far as my knowledge extends, has one been found on a village site, or in any of the many shell-heaps