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all but a sing-le specimen should by no means be taken as negative 

 evidence that bone arrow-tips were not in common use among 

 the Indians ot the lake. 



As already stated, gun and musket flints have been found 

 mingled with the flint chippings of these workshops. This is 

 obviously an indication of the advent of the European trader. Of 

 course these flints may have been lost or discarded by either white 

 man or Indian : but their presence may also bear witness to these 

 village sites having been used as temporary camping grounds by 

 the ''coureurs des bois," or, later on, by the agents of the Hud- 

 son's Bay Company. A silver bangle was also found, at Snake 

 Island Point, which is said to resemble those which are still used 

 in the ornamentation of hunting shirts and supplied to customers 

 of the above named company in the North West Territories. 



My attention was first directed to these workshops by Mr. 

 Jacob Smith, of the Interior Department at Ottawa, to whom is 

 due the sole credit of their discovery. Mr. Smith has thus rendered 

 an important contribution to the advancement of science that will 

 be duly appreciated by every student of Canadian archaeology. 



In a former paper in The Naturalist on the " Antiquities of 

 Lake Deschenes," I called attention to the finding of a cache of 

 bullets, some years ago, by Joseph Leclair of Aylmer, at Pointe 

 k la Bataille, otherwise known as Lapottie's Point, at the junction 

 of the lake shore with the eastern limit of Constance Bay. The 

 bullets are said to have been large and suited for a 12-bore gun. 

 Mr. Leclair took away several hundreds of them, but lelt many 

 more washing about in the sand. 



On the 24th of May, 1897, Aldos and David Pariseau dis- 

 covered a cache of bullets at Flat Rock, near Wilson's Bluff", and 

 just above the summer residence of Mr. A H. Taylor, in the town- 

 ship of South March, Ontario. They were found in the sand, in 

 a few inches of water quite close to the shore, and 800 were taken 

 from the cache, together with an Indian pipe with the head of some 

 animal moulded or carved on the bowl. Some ot these bullets are 

 now in my collection, and I am told that they are what are known 

 as the "trade bullets" supplied to Indians of the Northwest by the 

 Hudson's Bay Company. They are about the size used for a 

 16-bore gun. 



