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edge of natural features for miles in every direction, it could be 
safely taken for granted that their statement is correct, and no 
examination was made in that direction. 
Buffalo Creek flows past Carter from the southwest ; Smith Creek, 
coming from the northwest, joins it at the lower end of the town. 
Between these two is another creek, Brushy Fork, which joins 
Buffalo 114 miles west of Carter. 
Fannin place—YVhe first indications of aboriginal work are to be 
seen on top of the ridge between Buffalo and Brushy, on the farm 
of James Fannin, 314 miles nearly west from Carter. No flint is 
in place near here, but on a knoll forming the summit of a narrow 
place in the ridge the ground is sparsely strewn over a space of 
half an acre with blocks, spalls, flakes, and chips. The amount 
of material now to be seen is limited and has probably been scattered 
from a single arrow maker’s seat of indutsry. 
Thomas place —Three-fourths of a mile northwest from Fannin’s 
is a large spring on the land of Thomas T. Thomas; it comes out 
of the south hillside, 50 feet below the top. The surface above and 
to either side of the spring is covered with broken and partly worked 
flint; but there seem to be few flakes or chips, so it may be not an 
implement factory, but a blocking-out shop. 
McGlone place-—Opposite Thomas’s is the farm of N. A. McGlone. 
In exposed limestone ledges here are great numbers of nodules, of 
all sizes from an inch to a foot in diameter, each of which has a 
nucleus of red or red-orange, translucent, very fine-grained flint 
which sometimes has only a thin, weathered, grayish exterior coat- 
ing. There are faint indications of digging on the slope below the 
ledges, but they may be only natural inequalities of surface. 
Watson place—Adjoining McGlone’s is George Watson’s farm. 
On the north side of the road, near his house, is a narrow ridge, 
extending toward Brushy Fork; at its outer end the entire surface is 
dug over, on ton and down the slope on each side. Where workable 
nodules could be found near the top of the ground the pits are small 
and shallow; in other parts they are of varying sizes, the largest 
being of irregular outline, from 75 to 125 feet across from rim to rim 
of the surrounding wall, which is from 7 to 10 feet above the bottom 
of the excavation. There was an extensive workshop on this ridge, 
débris being abundant wherever the ground can be seen. 
Stamper place-—A fourth of a mile north of Watson’s house, on 
the Stamper farm, is a large spring in a ravine, 200 feet lower than 
the top of the hill. The ground is mostly overgrown around it, but 
wherever there is a break in the weeds or grass much workshop 
refuse appears, and some well-finished implements have been picked 
up. There are no diggings nearer than those on the Watson farm. 
