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also found in New Jersey and Canada. The nearest place, Union- 

 ville, Kentucky, being over 300 miles distant measured in a straight 

 line. Neither bloodstone nor garnet is known in Ohio, but they may 

 probably have been obtained from water worn pebbles. Copper and 

 silver were obtained in the Lake Superior region. 



The conch shell is a native of the coast of Florida and the 

 West Indies. 



In the burial mounds or tumuli, articles of a similar nature have 

 been found. Mr. Rau describes in his article on the Stock in trade 

 of an aboriginal Lapidary, the finding of a collection of Jasper orna- 

 ments in Lawrence County, Mississippi, consisting of four hundred 

 and forty-nine articles, some of which were elaborately finished, others 

 only partly wrought and others showing no work whatever. He 

 adds by way of a note that no Jasper pebbles occur in the neighbor- 

 hood of the place where the ornaments were found. According to 

 the latest authorities, jasper is not found in the State of Mississippi. 

 Some of the articles were of red jasper, which is found on the banks 

 of the Hudson, at Troy and in Calaveras County, California. In an 

 ossuary at Beverly, in the county of Wentworth in Ontario, Canada, 

 Mr. Schoolcraft found sea shells which must have come from the 

 south, eight armlets of red pipestone, from Coteau des prairies, in 

 Minnesota, pipes corresponding with the antique pipe found at 

 Thunder Bay and copper bracelets. 



The positions in which every one of these articles have been 

 found show they must have been placed there by man. 



That no other agency could possibly do so, and the logical 

 deduction is that man in America, at that period, had a widely 

 extended system of exchange. 



Now all these transportations of the various articles found, 

 mean commercial relations between the existing tribes at that time. 

 According to Dr. Wilson in his " Prehistoric Annals of Scotland," 

 the dolmens or cromlechs were the tombs of the chiefs, or great men 

 of the tribe Such tombs did not fall to the common lot, and if the 

 native was not so honored, a stranger wandering amongst them 

 would not be likely to be accorded such a distinguished resting- 

 place. Therefore, a stranger carrying such articles with him, could 

 not have deposited them in such positions. The fact of their being 



