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contain large numbers of barbed and grooved bone spear 

 and arrow points and other bone implements and but few 

 of stone. They were made when the shore line was farther 

 inland than now and are now all overgrown with an ancient 

 forest. The later middens are usually along the present 

 shore line, are comparatively shallow and are not so rich 

 in relics as the older and more extensive heaps. The shells 

 composing these heaps are usually in a good state of preser 

 vation. Also, the relics obtained from them are usually of 

 stone. These are: Dull green, gray and mottled jade-like 

 rock and smoky quartz adzes, chisels and axes, dark gray 

 and black basaltic rock and slate stemmed and differentially 

 beveled spear and arrow heads, obsidian knives, stone swords, 

 bone needles, stone pestle hammers, stone bowls and basins 

 in great number and variety. 



As a concluding remark, it would seem that at least two 

 distinct races have inhabited the region. The midden mate 

 rial left by the first race is most extensive and in the main 

 is made on the old shore line when the ocean waters ex 

 tended much farther inland than now and, judging from 

 the ancient forest ground and the geological criteria at hand, 

 it must have been in the neighborhood of 2,000 years since 

 this race disappeared from the region. The second series 

 of archaeological material dates from the receding of the 

 ocean waters from the beach on which the ancient middens 

 were formed and continues in being deposited to the pres 

 ent time. 



