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exactly for a similar purpose to those carefully prepared ‘“‘ scrapers” 
you may perceive in almost every collection of Indian relics in 
Canada and the United States. 
In order to form some independent opinion I recently requested 
two well-known dealers in New York to furnish me with about a dozen 
specimens of the arrow points they collected. Strange to say 
I found the majority were composed of quartz, pure and un- 
adulterated. How sucha substancc could have been reduced to the 
shape presented is completely beyond any knowledge I possess. So I 
must leave it for our university professors to shed some light on 
the subject. For my part I have always remarked how willing they 
are to help a lame dog over ‘‘the stile.” 
Both at Lake Medad and the places where small bands of the 
natives were seemingly encamped—Lime Ridge, and the Kerr pro- 
perty, near the city, for instance—I noticed a considerable number of 
the shells of the River Mussel (Azadoz) and kind, very much decayed. 
No doubt they were frequently used as food, only fragments of the 
thick portion, the least destructible, were remaining. Indian bone 
implements, awls, needles, etc., are exceedingly rare. Several, how. 
ever, have been found in the Medad ossuaries. - It is not probable 
that many articles of this material would survive more than a few 
year’s exposure, unless embedded in clay, or otherwise protected from 
the weather. The same may be said of such as were formed from 
the horn of the Wapeti, whose antlers are sometimes turned up 
by the plough greatly decayed. 
Shortly after the Jolley Cut road was opened, a land slide on a 
small scale occurred below it, revealing the horn of a young deer 
sticking out of stiff yellow clay, in fine preservation. It appeared to 
me to be about two feet below the surface soil, but this I could not 
determine as exactly as I desired. A depression may have existed 
originally in the ground and have been filled in subsequently. 
Gun flints, I noticed are not often seen in collections here. 
Altogether, I obtained about halfadozen. One, evidently long used, 
presented the well-known shape of such as were used in the British 
Army, before the introduction of the percussion cap, when “ dear 
old Brown Bess” was known in the service as the “ Queen of 
Weapons.” A few years ago I picked up a very ill-shaped one beside 
a rude powder horn. Both, however, may have been made by some 
early white settler. If by a native, at the time the flint was manu- 
