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Mr. F. Y. Hayden, of his discovery of fragments of pottery, 
flint flakes, arrow-heads, &c., in the refuse of an Indian village. 
He says, “ On a recent visit to the Pawne reservation at 
Loup Fork, I discovered the remains of an old Pawne village, 
apparently of greater antiquity than the others, and the only 
one about which any stone implements have yet been found. 
On and around the site of every cabin in this village I found 
an abundance of broken arrow-heads and chipped flints, 
some of which must have been brought from a great distance, 
and a variety of small stones which had been used as ham- 
mers, chisels, &c. I gathered about half a bushel of the 
fragments of pottery, arrow-heads, and chipped flints. Ho 
Pawne Indian now living knows of the time when this 
village was inhabited. Thirty years ago an old chief told a 
missionary that his tribe dwelt there before his birth ; but 
he knew nothing of the use of stone arrow-heads, though he 
said his people used them before the introduction of iron. 
This discovery is interesting, as it is the first tribe that I 
have ever been able to find connecting the stone age with 
the present in the Missouri Yalley. I have asked the most 
intelligent Indians of more than twenty tribes in this valley, 
‘ How far back in the past the Indians used stone arrow- 
points P ? and I have received but one answer. They would 
point towards heaven and say, ‘ The Great Spirit only knows ; 
we do not/ ” 
In conclusion, I would remark it is very probable there 
are several other localities in the neighbourhood that have 
been occupied by the early Britons, of which we have no 
record, as three instances bearing upon this point have come 
under my notice within the last two years. In 1867, a fine 
example of an early British uninscribed gold coin was found 
in a turnip field at Badsworth, near Pontefract, and is now 
in the possession of John Moore, Esq., of Moor House. On 
one side of this coin was a very rude disjointed representation 
