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southward there are other shell-heaps on a small saud-hill. (This is 

 the locality where the fine obsidian knives were found, which are in a 

 private collection at this place.) 



Fig. R. 



CMtle-sMn, {Big Bod; now CrooTc's Point, Figure R.) — About 

 three miles from the month of Pistol Eiver and six miles from 

 the prominent Cape Sebastian southerly, there is a flat point known 

 as Crook's Point. Southwest of this is a rock, separated from a group, 

 which is made prominent by forming a very picturesque arch. After 

 this rock the deserted homestead of the Indians was named. If from 

 this point we follow the bluff on the left side, (t. e., northward,) we find 

 flint splinters and shell and bone remains in large quantities up to a 

 place where a^^mall creek crosses the path; thence the debris is found 

 in single heaps along the sands toward Pistol Eiver. In a place where 

 the latter makes a strong eddy, there has been an important ranclieria, 

 and there I found the finest arrow-heads. A little farther up the river, 

 between the sand-hills, there are yet found remains of the "fort" of 

 1856, of the time of the Eogue Eiver war. Between Crook's Point and 

 this place it was evident that battles had been fought; for along this 

 distance the finest assortment of arrow and si)ear heads was found. 



If we now cross the river and mount the plateau of the right bank, 

 we find, immediately in the angle formed by the bend of the river, where 

 in former times was a settlement, excavations, which stretch for 100 

 yards beyond Dolan's house, and of which the remains then suddenly 

 cease, appearing again in small numbers at a j^lace near the cape. 



South from Crook's Point lies Khust-e-nete, a deposit of great extent, 

 but I had not even time to give it the slightest examination. Eight miles 



