716 General Notes. [ November, 
Not much heed was paid to the occurrences, as they were accepted 
as the matter of fact details of a land whose commonplace things 
were accounted unusual and wonderful by people living in other 
States. A few winters ago, when the river Coyote endangered 
the city by an overflow, about forty acres were washed out on the 
west bank. About two miles below this washout were found two 
curious mortars or bowls, one fitting into the other. Farther 
search brought to light small implements plainly bearing marks 
of flaking tools. But as foreign countries seemed most likely to 
contain all the evidences of prehistoric man, on account of their 
greater geological age, the idea that they were the implements of 
any but a recent and degraded race, was set aside. Soon, how- 
ever, a perfect arrow-head was found, which threw a flood of 
light on future research, which was prosecuted with earnestness, 
resulting in the discovery of many and some of them beautiful 
implements of flint, jasper, chalcedony, agate, &c., as well as 
some made from granite, gneiss, &c. 
These implements consist of knives, scrapers, arrows, drills, 
polishers, hammers, flakers, saws, axes, war-clubs, sling-stones, 
sinkers, charms or amulets, &c. They were found scattered along 
the river-bed below the washed-out field. The supposition 15, 
that this locality was either a favorite camping ground or place 
of burial. 
The scarcity of tools of the better class would indicate 
that this was only used as a place of sojournment for stated 
periods of hunting and fishing, or that some noted persons were 
buried here with the necessary utensils for their welfare in the 
happy hunting grounds. The number of knives, hammers and 
coarser implements seems to show that the encampment was for 
the purpose of obtaining supplies to last through a season spent 
elsewhere; while the fineness of material and finish of some 
would indicate their being used in burial. ; 
A few implements have been found in the Guadaloupe river 
banks, in excavations made in widening the river. They are of 
ruder workmanship and material than those from the Coyote. In 
a gravel pit on the Lick Homestead were found knives, flint cores, 
flakers, some small pieces of chalcedony in symmetrical shape, 
probably ornaments. The appearance of the Guadaloupe imple- 
ments compared with those from the Coyote shows the work of- 
a different tribe, with narrower grounds of operation and perhaps 
of more recent date. I have called them prehistoric because 
many of them are polished. They are also of the materials which 
ethnologists have found were used earlier than the obsidian imple- 
sh. 
ments of recent times —Snmie R. Bush 
