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erous intelligent Innuits who lived in that district, and from whom I 
bought various jade articles. These people all agreed in the statement 
that the jade occurs on the side of a steep hill or mountain slope de- 
‘scending to one of the rivers, and each described its occurrence only 
along what appeared from their descriptions to be a well-marked vein, 
or perhaps a dike, extending from the water to the crest of the hill. 
Jade celts also occur among the Indians of the Yukon about Nulato. 
‘They claim that the rough material is found upon the side of a mountain 
about 25 miles from Nulato. This is the same range in which the pre- 
vious locality is situated. The Point Barrow Innuits hunt reindeer and 
mountain sheep along the northern border of these mountains, and un- 
doubtedly obtain their crude material there. The same material is 
found in the mountains on the western part of the Kaviak Peninsula 
near Bering Strait. The Innuits of that district know it well and 
have many implements made from it. All I questioned as to the local- 
ity of this stone pointed to the mountains in the immediate vicinity. 
From Norton Sound south along the Alaskan coast to the vicinity of 
Bristol Bay this stone is almost or quite unknown among the Innuits, 
as I found when traveling among them; but the fine specimens recently 
received from Mr. McKay, at Bristol Bay, show conclusively that there 
must be another locality in that district where jade occurs in place. 
That small water-worn fragments are very frequently used by the na- 
tives for celts, &c.,is undoubtedly true, but that these fragments come 
from some point where the stone occurs as a part or whole of a vein is at 
least very probable, as shown by the Innuit description of the Kotzebue 
Sound locality. The Innuits call it a “ fire-stone,” and say it was made 
in a very hot fire when some of the volcanic cones of their mountains 
were in a state of eruption. On the Siberian shore of Bering Strait: 
only a very few jade fragments were seen by me, and their owners all 
claimed to have obtained them on the American side. 
GLORIETA, NEW MEXxIco, July 29, 1883. 
ON THE ORIGIN OF THE FOSSIL BONES DISCOVERED IN THE 
VICINITY OF TISE’S FORD, FLORIDA. 
By Ss. T. WALKER. 
[Letter to Prof. Spencer F. Baird. ] 
The day after I wrote to you from Fort Ogden, on Peace Creek, I pro- 
cured a small skiff, and the services of two strong negroes to row it, 
and proceeded up the riverin search of Tise’s Ford, which Iwas informed 
was 17 miles by the river and 8 miles by land. The rainy season hay- 
ing set in, the river was slightly swollen, and rising, which produced 
a cousiderable current increasing in strength as we ascended until 
rowing became quite a labor. The shores of the river were bold for 
