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glacier did not take up the red-man's burden is apparent from the 

 fact that it moved down the river instead of up, so that the flint 

 could not have been carried to Raymond's Point by its agency. 



If our practical man wishes us to give proofs of what we know 

 about the direction of the glacial movement, we may show him 

 the grooves below the boat-house on Mr. Watt's farm in the 

 township of Nepean, Ont., and again near the Presby- 

 terian Manse, at Aylmer, Que., where the glacial plough has fur- 

 rowed up the rocks in its passage down the Ottawa valley. To 

 prove that its passage was down, instead of up the river, a num- 

 ber of places may be shown, notably among which the one on Main 

 street, Aylmer, in front of the Methodist Church. Here, where a 

 section of rock was laid bare by the water-works excavations, it 

 was observed that boulders had been forced under the Chazy strata 

 from the westward, leaving large masses of these beds hoisted up 

 and dipping towards the east. 



That the flint was not carried by white men is obvious, from 

 the fact that the pale-face, on his arrival in this country, was 

 supplied with his musket and steel knife and the only flints he 

 carried were those for the hammer of his musket or the larger ones 

 for use in the preparation of his fire. 



And the paUeolithic Indian, it is only reasonable to suppose, 

 went to the nearest and most convenient place to procure such 

 material for the fabrication of his implements, and where it could 

 be obtained in the greatest abundance with the least expenditure 

 of labor, just as his civilized descendant of to-day will do when in 

 search of rim ash or red willow for working into his baskets. 



It is also a reasonable supposition, that the palaeolithic Indian 

 had acquired such a knowledge of what was good for himself, as 

 to take the precaution of carrying the raw material, for use in his 

 primitive arts, to some such judiciously selected camping ground 

 as Raymond's Point, where, from its strategic and secluded 

 position, he would be the better enabled to stand upon his dignit}' 

 and defend himself against an enemy, or make himself scarce as 

 prudence or necessity might dictate. An Indian clun^ to life and 

 wanted his days to be long in the land just the same as a white 

 man, and his natural instincts warned him against sitcing down in 

 any exposed position to flake out his flint instruments, where 



