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occupied by this people, since the frequent remains found in 

 this neighborhood bear the stamp of their workmanship. A 

 half mile to the eastward of this point, and under the high banks 

 to the right of the Kingsbury road to Sanford's bridge, is a small 

 site yielding large quantities of unworked flints. It Avould appear 

 that these agriculturists worked the sand plains about the falls 

 of the Hudson, as these two points are within the limits of the 

 city of Glens Falls, which was inhabited : one on the site of the 

 present French Catholic church, which has yielded large pestles, 

 and another back of the city cemetery, and between it and Upper 

 Glen street, producing various flints. That these early inhabi- 

 tants were frequent visitors at Lake George in quest of game, is 

 evidenced by the location of several of their camps, notably one 

 at the head of the lake and another at Dunham's bay. We could 

 not rationally expect to find here samples of their farming activi- 

 ties, from the nature of the soil, nor do we. But the pottery is 

 in evidence here, showing that, like their white successors, they 

 appreciated the advantages of life and health, which lie in fre- 

 quent more or less protracted fishing and hunting trips. These 

 small sites — there must be many more of them along the shores 

 and among the islands — were their camps. 



Returning to our base as Glen lake, we find traces along the 

 eastern shore; and branching near the head of the lake a line 

 of population followed very nearly by the present line as far 

 south as the neighborhood of De Long's brickyard. Spreading 

 to the east and west, this takes in the famous Blind rock and 

 Hunter's brook tracts with the immediately adjoining territory. 



One of the very interesting local problems is the relation 

 of the Eskimos to the region east of Canada and to the 

 former inhabitants of the upper half of New York State — 

 about the Great Lakes, the St Lawrence river and the adjacent 

 smaller streams and lakes. The Eskimos of Point Barrow retain 

 in present use a certain kind of blade or knife of slate, ground 

 and finely polished, in length of three to eight inches, stemmed 

 and usually barbed, sometimes thin and flat, with a narrow bevel 

 to form the cutting edges, often more thick, beveled off from 

 a central longitudinal ridge running the length of the blade. 

 These tools are singular in that no other existing peoples 

 use them, nor from what follows does it seem that any 

 other people ever did use them. In the portion of Canada bor- 

 dering the Great Lakes, and about the streams and lakes in the 



