24 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 89 



Browns Cove, near the foot of the Blue Ridge, in Albemarle County, 

 is shown in figure 6. It had probably been made and used near the 

 spot where it was discovered ; nothing similar has been found on the 

 village or camp sites encountered in other parts of the county. 



It is to be regretted that a more complete, more exhaustive 

 archeological survey of the region could not have been made, and 

 the same statement may be applied to the entire piedmont country. 

 However, the few scattered sites described at this time are believed 

 to be characteristic of the entire region, and if this be true, the ex- 

 amination of additional localities and the gathering of more material 

 of the same nature would not tend to add greatly to what is now 

 known concerning the manners and ways of life of the native tribes 

 who once occupied the country. Two important investigations, how- 

 ever, remain to be carried on : One is to bring together and sift the 

 evidence of a very early period of occupancy in piedmont Virginia; 

 the other is to determine the route followed by the Siouan tribes 

 from their ancient habitat beyond the Ohio to piedmont Virginia, to 

 the land they claimed and occupied in 1607. 



