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Five or sis miles west of tliis a deposit of blaclv Hint is reported to occur 

 in u tliiclv stratum. Several acres, in detached areas, have been completely dug 

 over; l)roken flint, spalls, and unlinislied implements are said to almost hide the 

 ground in places.^ 



No one can say at what period the work in these (jiuirries com- 

 menced. Many centuries must have ehipsed since the 

 Age of the Quai- ^^.^^ ^-^^ ^^..^^ oi^tjiiucd from the massive beds, and it 



ries " 



is altogetlier probable that the work was continued 

 "until the encroachments of Europeans drove the natives from the 

 general region or substituted other materials for thy anciently indis- 

 pensable flint, 



1 Fowke, op. cit., pp. G24-625. 



