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Brewer, distant from Baggy Point thirteen miles in a direct 
line, of which four are across Barnstaple Bay. Supposing, then, 
a manufactory of weapons existed at Baggy, it is evident that 
the raw material necessary for the formation of the tools must 
have been brought either by sea or land a considerable distance 
for that purpose.” 
Further on, I shall, I think, be able to show that the writers 
of this remark have overlooked, probably, the true source from 
which the natives obtained the raw material, and which is much 
closer at hand than these observers have believed. But, sup- 
posing that should not be the case, we have parallel instances in 
recent savage life. Mr. John Keast Lord, in his delightful 
book, The Naturalist in British Columbia, says, <£ I found, 
in rambling over the sandy plain near Fort Walla-Walla, 
numbers of flint implements, together with heaps of fragments. 
At some remote period of time, not easy to discover, the Indians 
evidently made their arrow-heads and other implements of flint 
at this place. The stone of which they were made could not 
have been obtained nearer than the Cascades ” (a distance of 150 
miles), “and must have been either traded from the Indians 
inhabiting that district, or brought from there themselves. 
“ I am,” he continues, “ disposed to think a regular flint trade 
was carried on by these inland tribes, at some remote period, 
with the tribes living on the seaboard and lower parts of Co- 
lumbia. Not only were the flints traded, but dentalia (tooth 
shells), mother-of-pearl, and the barnacle parasite of the whale. 
I dug ornaments, made from the three marine productions 
from out a gravel bank, together with a skull, (which had not 
been altered by pressure during infancy,) in an Indian burial- 
ground, and a number of arrow-heads, fragments, and scrapers, 
made from flint or other hard material, which must have been 
brought a very long distance, as it has no representative in any 
rock found in the immediate neighbourhood.” 
We therefore can see no difficulty, in consequence of the dis- 
tance of the raw material, for believing this to have been the 
focus of the manufacture of the large number of flakes that lie 
scattered within an area of at least twenty miles’ diameter, since 
similar flints to those found at Baggy Point may be met with, 
in considerable numbers, on the adjoining hill, where the plough 
lias never been, but where the soil has been washed by many 
storms from the surface of the rock. More sparsely they are 
to be found on the opposite hill, and along the coast to beyond 
Croyde Bay ; also inland on the cultivated districts. And Mr. 
Whitley writes to me, to say that he has met with them at Bar- 
tridge, ten miles up the Taw valley. He says that, making a 
new road, nearly half a mile long, up the hill side, the flakes 
were found sparingly all the way ; about 400 pieces of split flint 
