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sirable agricultural district, although I judge from the growth 
and great variety of plants obtained there, that some of our 
cereals and most of our hardy vegetables could be grown in the 
Theron Valley. ps 
As to mineral products, from what mention has already 
been made of the rocks, it may readily be judged that the The- 
lon valley has little to offer, although with the Esquimos many 
articles such as arrow heads, spear heads, skinning knives, etc., 
were observed, which have been beaten into form from native 
copper, which, as they had explained to me, had been picked up 
as pebbles from the ground, far to the northward near to the 
salt water. 
