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was evident that the gravel had not been disturbed by natural or 

 artificial agencies since the clearing away of the forest, and, as the 

 bed is beyond the reach of the high water in the spring, there is 

 some ground for the supposition that it must have been washed 

 into its present position at a time when the volume of water in 

 Lake Deschenes was much greater than it has been in recent 

 years. 



From a personal examination of the foregoing and similar 

 data, I am convinced that for many generations these work places 

 were centres of aboriginal occupation, either as village sites or 

 permanent camping grounds, for the red men of this part of the 

 Ottawa valley. 



These places, which have so far been examined, are situated 

 at Raymond's Point, just opposite the innermost extremity of 

 Chartrand's Island, and at Snake Island Point and Noel's Point, 

 all on the Ontario shore. Also, from the eastern boundary of the 

 Queen's Park at Pointe aux Pins, on the Quebec side of the lake, 

 the shore is strewn with flints as far down as the rocky point which 

 forms the eastern limit of Newman's Bay. At Bell's Bay, between 

 the town of Aylmer and Deschenes village, at the mouth ot a small 

 creek, flints are also found in great abundance, and above and 

 below it at frequent intervals. 



A peculiar feature of these beach workshops is that the 

 greatest accumulations of flint chippings are to be found about 

 large boulders or detached masses of rock, which appear to have 

 been utilized as work-tables upon which the chipping, pecking- or 

 grinding processes in the fabrication of implements of war or of 

 the chase were accomplished by the ancient workmen. 



Frag-ments of rude pottery, at Raymond's Point, composed of 

 a mixture of clay and gravel, and imperfectly burnt, are indica- 

 tions that in fictile work the primitive dwellers on the shores of 

 Lake Deschenes had mastered the initial stages in the manufac- 

 ture of domestic utensils. These fragments are quite smooth and 

 ornamented on the outside ; while they are either smooth or bear 

 the unmistakable impressions of grass blades on the inside; from 

 which it would seem that two diff"erent methods were employed in 

 the manufacture of the originals to which they belonged. In one 

 process, the primitive potter seems to have daubed the matrix 



