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EELIQTJI^E AQUITANKLE. 



how far you agree with me in the view I have taken of the matter under the 

 superficial consideration I have been enabled to give to it. Meanwhile believe 

 me to be, 



Dear Sir, 



Yours very truly, 



ALEX. C. ANDERSON. 



T. Rupert Jones, Esq., Professor of Geology, $c., 

 Royal Military College, Sandhurst. 



APPENDIX TO ME. ANDERSON'S LETTEE. 



1 Together -with this horn chisel from Mackenzie River (fig. 15, p. 37) we here figure (also in 

 reduced outline) a similar but more perfect specimen of the Indian " Puck-a-maugan " (or 

 " Pogamagan," as Mackenzie terms it) which was brought by Gordon A. Thomson, Esq., from 

 Sitka, as an implement with which the Indians knocked game on the head, and presented to 

 the Museum at Belfast, where Mr. Franks lately saw it. This specimen is covered with leather 

 on the upper part, and has a leathern string or shoulder-strap, reaching from the top to a hole in 

 the end of the projecting remnant of the brow-antler. See fig. 32. 



The following extracts (kindly supplied by Mr. T. K. Gay) from works descriptive of travels in the 

 high latitudes of North America contain information as to the implements under notice, as well 

 as remarks on the use of instruments of stone, bone, tooth, &c., which elucidate to some extent 

 the probable habits of the ancient people of Perigord, whose implements and weapons we are 

 illustrating in this book. 



Extract from 'A Journey to the Northern Ocean,' by SAMUEL HEARNE (8vo, Dublin, 1796). 



Hearne, speaking of a woman of the tribe of the Western Dog-ribbed Indians, who had been 

 taken prisoner by the Athapuscow tribe, and had managed to escape from them, and was 

 discovered by Hearne's party to the south of the Athapuscow Lake, where she had subsisted 

 herself for seven months by snaring rabbits, partridges, etc., and had built herself a hut to live 

 in, says (p. 267), "In a conversation with this woman soon afterward, she told us that her 

 country h'es so far to the Westward that she had never seen iron, or any other kind of metal, 

 till she was taken prisoner. All her tribe, she observed, made their hatchets and ice-chisels of 

 Deer's horns, and their knives of stones and bones, that their arrows were shod with a kind of 

 slate, bones, and Deer's horns ; and the instruments which they employed to make their wood- 

 work were nothing but Beavers' teeth. Though they had frequently heard of the useful materials 

 which the nations or tribes to the East of them were supplied with from the English, so far were 

 they from drawing nearer, to be in the way of trading for iron-work &c., that they were obliged 

 to retreat farther back, to avoid the Athapuscow Indians who made surprizing slaughter among 

 them, both in winter and summer/' 



