142 The Ottawa Naturalist. [September 



black or dark-colored flints, from 2 to 3 inches in diameter down 

 to the finest particles, such as may have been flaked from an 

 arrow-head in the finishing process. 



Ming-led with these rough fragments are some that bear 

 unmistakable evidence of having been worked, together with 

 roughly as well as finely finished arrow-heads and spear-head 

 shaped knives of the same material. In other words we find these 

 implements, in various stages of completion, along with the raw 

 material from which they were fabricated. 



The question which now arises, in regard to the presence of 

 these flints, is somewhat similar to that once propounded by a 

 novice upon seeing some large boulders at Deschenes station : 

 " Have them stones been brought there or have they just 

 growed " ? 



It is evident that this flint was not " growed " at Raymond's 

 Point as it'is not found in situ either in the Calciferous outcrop 

 upon which it is strewn or in the contiguous Chazy, so that it 

 must have been brought there, but from whence and by what 

 means are other questions. 



It does not appear to have been brought there by glacial 

 action, as it is not found in the glacial drift on the main land or 

 adjacent islands. It is not even found in the dark boulders which 

 line the opposite shore of Chartrand's Island and which, a sapient 

 friend of mine once suggested, may have been pine knots which 

 had been washed ashore and petrified at the time of Noah's flood. 



In the Trenton formation in the City of Hull, however, 

 nodules of this flint are found in great abundance, especially along 

 Brigham's Creek, both in situ and in detached masses of the same 

 limestone from which latter they may have been removed with but 

 little difficulty. Let some of this flint be broken up and mingled 

 with similar fragments from Raymond's Point and I doubt if the 

 most skilful geologist could distinguish the former from the latter 

 by other evidence than the recency of the fracture. 



This, therefore seems to be one of the several obvious reasons 

 for supposing that the flint from both places is identical. That it 

 was picked up or quarried at Hull or Ottawa and carried up the 

 river by Indians who, at Raymond's Point, among places, fashioned 

 it into their arrow-heads and knives. That the aforementioned 



