 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1864
...form a right or even an acute angle with the stone plate. If the shape of the described implements did not indicate their original use, the peculiar...if glazed, and slightly striated in the direction iu which the implement penetrated the ground. This peculiar feature is common to all specimens of my... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1869
...used for digging can hardly be doubted. " If the shape of these implements," I stated in my account, " did not indicate their original use, the peculiar...direction in which the implement penetrated the ground." I further mentioned that this peculiar feature is common to all specimens of my collection as well... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1869
...for digging' can hardly be doubted. " If the shape of these implements," I stated in my account, " did not indicate their original use, the peculiar traces of wear which they exhibit w:onld furnish almost conclusive evidence of the manner in which they have been employed; for that... | |
 | Charles Conrad Abbott, Smithsonian Institution - 1877 - 380 pages
...specimen agrees entirely with his statement, that " if the shape of the described implements (shovels aud hoes) did not indicate their original use, the peculiar...digging was done, appears, notwithstanding the hardness ef the material, perfectly smooth, as if glazed, and slightly striated in the direction, in which the... | |
 | Charles Conrad Abbott, Henry Carvill Lewis - 1881 - 560 pages
...fastened to a wooden handle. Of these, it has been remarked by Dr. Rau,7a who first described them, that " if the shape of the described implements (shovels...direction in which the implement penetrated the ground." This form is not found in New Jersey, but its place is taken by a "pecked" and grooved implement, in... | |
 | Charles Conrad Abbott, Henry Carvill Lewis - 1881 - 560 pages
...fastened to a wooden handle. Of these, it has been remarked by Dr. Rau,79 who first described them, that " if the shape of the described implements (shovels...direction in which the implement penetrated the ground." This form is not found in New Jersey, but its place is taken by a "pecked" and grooved implement, in... | |
 | Charles Conrad Abbott - 1881 - 560 pages
...fastened to a wooden handle. Of these, it has been remarked by / Dr. Rau,78 who first described them, that " if the shape of the described implements (shovels...direction in which the implement penetrated the ground." This form is not found in New Jersey, but its place is taken by a "pecked" and grooved implement, in... | |
 | Charles Conrad Abbott - 1881 - 560 pages
...fastened to a wooden handle. Of these, it has been remarked by Dr. Rau,79 who first described them, that " if the shape of the described implements (shovels...direction in which the implement penetrated the ground." This form is not found in New Jersey, but its place is taken by a "pecked" and grooved implement, in... | |
 | Charles Rau - 1882 - 169 pages
...form a right or even an acute angle with the stone plate. If the shape of the described implements did not indicate their original use, the peculiar...exhibit would furnish almost conclusive evidence of the mariner in which they have been employed ; for that part with which the digging was done, appears,... | |
 | Boston Society of Natural History - 1884
...one on each side, by which it was fastened to a handle. " If the shape of the implements described did not indicate their original use, the peculiar...direction in which the implement penetrated the ground." Specimens of these interesting objects of both sorts are here for your examination. In a subsequent... | |
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If the shape of the described implements did not indicate their original use, the peculiar traces of wear which they exhibit would furnish almost conclusive evidence of the manner in which they have been employed; for that part with which the digging... 
