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THE FIRST TOOLS
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outward upper curve of the handle. The wrist corresponds to the middle of the inner curve, and the whole axe is, as Kapp has shown, a faithful copy of its original model, and its proportions fulfil the

American backwoodsman's axe in proportion to the human arm