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two miles was the ancient quarry from which the chert was taken to 

 manufacture knives, arrow-heads, and spear-heads. At the base of the 

 Burlington limestone bluff are found hundreds of fragments of chert 

 implements, broken and cast away by the workmen, amidst thousands 

 of chips. The material was obtained from the nodules in the limestone 

 and worked on the spot, but whether by the ancient mound folk or the 

 more modern Indian there is nothing to indicate. In an old book called 

 the Navigator, the writer, Patrick Kennedy, who passed up the Illi- 

 nois River in the year 1773, says "The Peories wintering-ground is 







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Fig. 28. Enropean objects from monnds. 



48 miles from the Mississippi. - - - Pierre Island is some dis- 

 tance above, near which, from a hill on the western side, the Indians 

 procure a flevhe or arrow-stone, with which they make their gun flints 

 and point their arrows." On an old map, furnished to Governor Ed- 

 wards in 1812 by John Hoy, a Frenchman, is found a creek marked 

 Pierre a la Fleche. In a letter to the Secretary of War, May, 1812, Gov- 

 ernor Edwards called this creek the Arrowstone. It is now known as 

 Flint Creek. The French no doubt derived the name from the Indians, 



