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attracted by the noise of his labor, an inquisitive member of some 

 hostile tribe mig"ht come and look over his shoulder to see what 

 he was doings and, incidentally, remove some of his hair, tog-ether 

 with any tribal prestig^e he may have acquired as a cunning 

 warrior. 



And now ror the reasons which point to Raymond's Point as 

 an aborig^inal camping ground. We have adduced what seems to 

 be fairly conclusive evidence that the flint was brought there by 

 Indians for purposes of palaiolithic manufacture. From the 

 presence of finished and unfinished palaeolithic implements in 

 various stages of fabrication, mingled with the debris of the 

 aboriginal workshop, we are convinced by circumstantial evidence, 

 that this primitive industry was carried on upon the spot, just as 

 much so as after an examination of the flat at the mouth of 

 Breckenridge's Creek, higher up the river, we would recognize it 

 as the abandoned site of a modern brick-yard. We also find the 

 worn out and discarded celt, or stone tomahawk, and observe, in 

 its blunted and dilapidated condition, the reasons which led its 

 former owner to cast it aside for a new one. 



Following the denundation edges of the alluvial soil, we find 

 fragments of rude pottery made out of a mixture of clay and 

 coarse sand or gravel, which has been imperfectly burnt and bears 

 other evidences of crude fictile workmanship. 



If our practical friend is desirous of knowing where the Indian 

 procured the material tor the manufacture of this ancient pottery, 

 there is little difficulty in pointing out to him the source from which 

 it was derived. 



At Noel's Bay, Coghlan's Creek, Winter Point and several 

 other places in the immediate vicinity, the clay and sand on the 

 lake shore are mixed together in about the same proportion as in 

 the fragments of pottery already alluded to and, as our primitive 

 artificer was the graduate of a rough-and-ready school of art, he 

 made use of this ready-to-hand matrix, instead of going miles out 

 of his way to get better, as the fragments of his work most clearly 

 indicate. 



Another important feature of Raymond's Point is the presence 

 of arrow-heads of what we might term foreign manufacture, for 

 although, as a rule, the arrow-tips found at this place are made 



