. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Fig. 93.—Monaglian. Another nearly simihir specimen was discovered near Cooks-town, in the county of Tyrone, and is engraved in the ArchcpologlcalJournal* Another is in the collection of Colonel A. Lane Fox, Some of the hatchets from the Swiss Lake-dwellings werehafted in a similar manner. In one such haft, formed of ash,from E,obenhausen,t the blade is inclined towards the hand ; inanother, also of ash, the blade is at right angles to the of these club-like hafts resemble in character those in usefor i
. The ancient stone implements, weapons, and ornaments, of Great Britain. Fig. 93.—Monaglian. Another nearly simihir specimen was discovered near Cooks-town, in the county of Tyrone, and is engraved in the ArchcpologlcalJournal* Another is in the collection of Colonel A. Lane Fox, Some of the hatchets from the Swiss Lake-dwellings werehafted in a similar manner. In one such haft, formed of ash,from E,obenhausen,t the blade is inclined towards the hand ; inanother, also of ash, the blade is at right angles to the of these club-like hafts resemble in character those in usefor iron blades in Southern and Central Africa.§ The copper orbronze axes of the Mexicans || were hafted in the same manner. I have engraved, in Fig. 94, an extremely rude example of thiskind of hafting from an original kindly lent me by Mr. Thomas. -Axe from (lie Rio Frio. Belt, , who procured it among the Indians of the RioFrio, a tributary of the Hio Nueces, in Texas. The blade isof trachyte, entirely unground and most rudely chipped. Theclub-like haft is formed of some endogenous wood, and hasevidently been chopped into shape by means of stone tools. In these instances Clavigeros remark with regard to the copperllor bronze axes of the Mexicans holds good; they are like thoseof modern times, except that we put the handle in an eye of theaxe, while they put the axe in an eye of the handle. * Vol. iv. p. n. t Kellers Lake Dwellings, Eng. ed., pi. x. 14. I Ihid., pi. .\i. 1. ^S Wood, Nat. Hist, of Man, vol. i. pp. 321, 404. II Scpiicr, Alior. Men. oiNow York, p. 1<S(). U (Quoted in Anr. I\Imi. of Miss, \-tllcy, }). 198. COMPAKED WITH AXES OF MODERN SAVAGES. 141 Some of the stone and metallic axes in use among other modernsavages are hafted in much the same manner. In some instancesit would appear as if the hole for recei
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