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quantities of native float copper are to be found. These would be big 

 enough for the manufacture of beads but not for the gorgets and larger 

 ornaments. Most of the other sources of native copper south of the 

 Ohio were probably similar and with similar limited possibilities. 



It is noteworthy that Strachey, our authority for the above, also 

 states that in the high country to the northwest lived a people called 

 Bocootawwonaukes, said by Powhatan to "melt" copper and other 

 metals (Strachey, 1849, p. 27) , but farther on he corrects this statement : 



For copper, the hills to the northwest have that store, as the people themselves, 

 remembered in the first chapter, called the Bocootauwanaukes, are said to part 

 the solide mettall from the stone without fire, bellowes, or additamant, and beat it 

 into plates, the like whereof is hardly found in any other parte of the world. 

 (Strachey, 1849, p. 130.) 



Without mentioning their connection with copper. Smith speaks of 

 these people under a different name, Pocoughtronack : 



Hee [Powhatan] described also upon the same sea [the South Sea being as- 

 sumed to lie just beyond the mountains] , a mighty Nation called Pocoughtronack, 

 a fierce Nation that did eate men, and warred with the people of Moyaoncer and 

 Pataromerke [Potomac], Nations upon the toppe of the heade of the Bay, under 

 his territories : where the yeare before they had slain an hundred. He signified 

 their crownes were shaven, long haire in the necke, tied on a knot, Swords like 

 PoUaxes. (Smith, John, Tyler ed., 1907, p. 49.) 



The name given to them seems to signify "people of the place of 

 fire," which Hewitt interprets, naturally enough, to mean the Pota- 

 watomi. For the present this must be accepted as the most probable 

 identification, but it seems strange that the Potawatomi should at that 

 early period have made their way as far as Virginia since, in order to 

 do so, they would have been obliged to pass through the territories of 

 the Neutral Nation, the Erie, Black Minqua, and several Siouan 

 tribes. In favor of this identification is the fact that the Algonquian 

 tribes of the coast with which they warred were those living well to 

 the north. In order to attack them they would seem to have descended 

 the Potomac. In the instructions given to Sir Thomas Gates, when 

 he was about to sail for Virginia in 1609 as deputy governor of the 

 colony, mention is made of a large town to the north at the head of 

 Chesapeake Bay "where is store of Copp[er] and ffurs," the name of 

 the town being Cataanron. Copper collected here probably came down 

 the Susequehanna River, which was reached, we may assume, by the 

 Juniata trail (Bushnell, 1907, p. 35). 



According to Smith, Powhatan also "described a countrie called 

 Anone, where they have abundance of Brasse, and houses walled as 

 ours" (Smith, John, Tyler ed., 1907, p. 49). There is no clue to the 

 identity of this province. 



The author of the Newport relation says : 



