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Chattahoochee, and other southern streams, and states more specifically 

 that there were a number of open-air workshops along the line of 

 Savannah River and especially that portion which formed the eastern 

 boundary of the counties of Richmond, Columbia, Lincoln, and Elbert, 

 and in the counties of South Carolina on the opposite side (Jones, C. C, 

 1873). There was a flint quarry 2 miles above Columbus, Ga., in 

 Muscogee County in the same State (Brannon, 1909, p. 194). There 

 was certainly a great flint implement factory at Albany, Dougherty 

 County, near Flint River. It may have been this workshop which 

 gave its name to that stream, called in the original Creek Thlonotiska, 

 "where flint is picked up," but it should be noted that the name 

 Thlonoto was given specifically to the present Hogcrawl Creek between 

 Dooly and Macon Counties. 



Beverley (1705, bk. 2, p. 11) quotes Alexander Whittaker, Minister of 

 Henrico, to the effect that "Twelve miles from the Falls [of James 

 River] , there is a Chrystal Rock, wherewith the Indians do head many 

 of their Arrows." 



In Alabama there was a quarry on the southeastern side of Story's 

 (or Storees) Mountain, on the Western Railroad, east of Youngesboro, 

 in the fields, in township 19, range 27 east. Another was at the eastern 

 end of Cedar Ridge in Talladega County, in township 18, range 7 east. 



West of the Mississippi about Hot Springs, Ark., were extensive 

 novaculite quarries, and quarries were reported in sections 7 and 9, 

 township 4 south, range 24 west, in Montgomery County, and near 

 Magnet Cove in Hot Springs County. (Thomas, 1891, p. 15 ; Holmes, 

 1903, pp. 196-200). 



An early writer speaks of flint as abounding in the country of the 

 Avoyel Indians, La. (Dyer, 1917), and in fact there is flint near 

 the Rapides which may have been utilized by them. It is probable, 

 however, that they derived their name, which seems to be the Natchez 

 equivalent of Mobilian Tasanak okla, "Flint People," very largely 

 from the fact that they acted as middle men who obtained worked or 

 unworked flint from the Arkansas Indians about the Hot Springs, 

 and passed it on to the Chitimacha and Atakapa on the coast, these 

 last supplying the Karankawa farther west (Dyer, 1917, pp. 6, 7; 

 Swanton, 1911, pp. 24-26). 



At the end of the eighteenth century, the Upper Creeks obtained 

 their pipes largely from one man who made them of a dark stone 

 (Swan, 1855, p. 692). This may have been obtained in or near the 

 present Talladega County, Ala., but on the other hand it may have 

 been brought from the Cherokee country, where stone of similar 

 color was used for this purpose. Indeed, Adair (1775, p. 423) in- 

 forms us that the Cherokee made the best stone pipes and these 

 were traded to peoples less well provided with suitable material for 



