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sarily have been washed from the hill-side, I found that 

 the crumbling bluff had, by the recent uprooting of a 

 tree directly above the spring, exposed the site of an 

 arrow-maker's workshop. 



Such evidences of the aborigines are not novelties in 

 this vicinity. I have found dozens such, and thousands 

 of beautiful arrow-points, spears, scrapers, and all the va- 

 riety of chipped flints, now rest in museum cases, gath- 

 ered from these places and the intervening fields. 



Tlie one I found so recently told the same story as 

 have the others. Here were bowlders of jasper and 

 flinty rocks, such as are common to the gravel-beds that 

 form the eastern bank of the river, five miles away as 

 the crow files; also cores or remnants of the selected 

 pebbles and bowlders, which vv'ere too small or too irreg- 

 ular in shape to be further available. With these were 

 large flakes, some of which may have been used as knives, 

 or intended for such use ; for just such specimens are 

 frequently found, with undoubtedly finished tools, on 

 wigwam sites. I found too, as is always the case, blocked 

 out and subsequently discarded specimens, and others 

 that had been nearly or quite finished and then irrepa- 

 rably injured by some unlucky finishing touch. Of course, 

 fine chips and splinters were abundant ; but I failed to 

 find any hammer- stones or other fiint- clipping tools. 

 Had the arrow-maker, when he left, carried these away 

 with him? It is certainly a plausible explanation of 

 their absence. 



What I have mentioned of another and much larger 

 workshop-site I can repeat of this : here, shaded by dense 

 woods, on a slightly elevated knoll, in the midst of a 



