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168 of bark, and in his figure shows the two ends of the stick more firmly bound together.

Another example has been engraved by the Rev. J. G. Wood. This mode is very similar to that in common use among blacksmiths

Fig. 105.—Axe—Northern Australia.

for their chisels and swages, which are held by means of a withy twisted round them, and secured in its place by a ring.

It seems extremely probable that so simple a method may have been in use in early times in this country, though we have no direct evidence as to the fact. A "fancy sketch" of a celt in a withy handle will be found in the Archæologia. It resembles in a singular manner the actual implements employed by the Ojibway Indians, of which there is a specimen in the Christy Collection, engraved by the Rev. J. G. Wood. Some of the other North American tribes mounted their hatchets in much the same manner. A hatchet thus hafted is engraved by Schoolcraft.

In some instances a groove of greater or less depth has been worked round the axes mounted in this manner, though undoubtedly British examples are scarce. An axe-hammer of diorite (13 inches), found near Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, has a groove round it instead of the usual haft-hole. The blade engraved in the Archæological Journal and found near Coldstream, Northumberland, is probably of Carib origin, like others which have also been supposed to have been British. Another from the Liverpool