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showing plainly where chips have been broken off to form the 
required implements. 
In the Archzological report of the Canadian Institute by D. 
Boyle it is stated that the township or neighborhood of Bertie was 
apparently a place where the Indians (the Neuters apparently), 
manufactured the flint implements they bartered with other tribes. 
It is not by any means an easy matter to trace this mineral to the 
original source. I have frequently noticed it in the Post Glacial 
Drift of Western Ontario, variously colored, while all of it, or 
nearly all at least, was probably derived from the cherty limestones 
of the Corniferous (Devonian) series. I have seen some points 
of jet black hornstone from Mr. Kerr’s farm at Barton and others in 
a fragmentary condition from that locality, bearing a near resem- 
blance to the water-worn rounded flint occasionally found along 
the southern shore of Ireland, which may have belonged originally to 
the chalk formation in England. I have not remarked anything like 
it in the Devonian rocks of Canada. Some years ago a large tree 
was uprooted on Mr. Heaven’s property at Boyne (between Hamil- 
ton and Milton.) In the clay underneath several arrow heads were 
discovered, four of which he kindly gave me; two of them are hard 
white flint. They may have been brought from a distance, obtained . 
either in war or barter. L[ascertained that at a comparatively recent 
time a small body of Indians were encamped at Lime Ridge when 
the first white settlers arrived here. There is a never-failing spring 
near the sloping ground where their tents were pitched. In the bed 
of the stream, a small one flowing from it, I found abundant evidence 
it was here they scaled and prepared the fish for cooking they had 
taken in the lake. The numerous scrapers lying about proved 
the natives frequently used for the purpose any flint flake, 
provided it would be suitable for the purpose. Many of 
the so-called ‘“‘Palzolithic” implements gave me the im- 
pression that they were merely tools manufactured by poor or in- 
different workmen for some temporary purpose. Side by side you 
may often pick up in a freshly-ploughed field, after rain, a highly 
finished flint scraper or arrow point, together with another so rudely 
manufactued that if discovered in Europe it would be pronounced 
undoubtedly Pre-Weolthic. Many may be failures thrown away in 
disgust, yet I sometimes doubt when I observe an isolated flint flake, 
presumably of human manufacture, that it may have been used 
