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from the Trenton flint of Hull or Ottawa, we sometimes meet with 

 some that are made from a more compact and lighter coloured 

 flint than that found in the Ottawa district. And one reason why 

 these latter seem to be of foreign rather than of local manufac- 

 ture is, that we do not find in the debris of the Raymond's Point, 

 or any other Indian workshop on Lake Deschenes, any of the raw 

 material from which they were fabricated. 



Within the memory of the generation passing away, this was 

 an ideal spot for the aboriginal hunter. The forest was alive with 

 red deer, the bay teemed with fish and the adjacent creeks were 

 well stocked with beaver, otter, muskrat and other fur-bearing 

 animals. So that this prodigality of nature, in thus supplying the 

 wherewithal to keep the wolf from the wigwam, together with the 

 evidences of Indian occupation already enumerated, seem to be 

 ample proof that the place was an Indian camping ground. And 

 the foreign arrow heads would favor the conclusion that it was 

 also a halting place for roving bands of natives, who made use of 

 the great water highway of the Ottawa River. 



Last summer, Harold Nelson, a student in Woodstock 

 College, and a son of Mr. Frank Nelson of the Interior Depart- 

 ment, at Ottawa, was good enough to send me some arrow-heads 

 from Paris, Ont. In comparing these with those in my collection, 

 I was surprised to find that some of them were of the same 

 " make " as well as of the same flint, in color and texture, as what 

 I have called the foreign ones, found a few weeks previously, at 

 Raymond's Point. 



The presence of flint implements of foreign, as well as of local 

 manufacture on these palaeolithic camping grounds of the Ottawa 

 River, seems to present an interesting field of investigation in 

 comparative palajolithology, that might throw some additional 

 light upon the ramifications of intertribal commerce, or the 

 migratory movements of the native races which occupied this 

 country in pre-historic times. 



It might be possible after an exhaustive study of the subject, 

 extending over wide areas of occupation, to point with such a 

 degree of accuracy either to the occurrence or to certain peculiar- 

 ities of material or workmanship of palaeolithic implements, as to 

 t)§ able to identify them as the relics of this or that particular tribe 



