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arrow-heads beautifully formed, with the barbs perfect, showing 
the manipulation of the manufacture. The ability displayed in 
the manipulation is evidence of skill in workmanship and of time 
required in the execution. But we are not to suppose that the 
highly wrought and skilfully laboured flint tool was one that 
was less prized than the expensively finished weapon of modern 
times, and therefore valued by the chief, the skilful warrior, 
or huntsman, as an ornament to his quiver or belt. An 
instance of this kind was told to me by Mr. Lord, the naturalist 
who accompanied the commissioners who defined the line of 
boundary between Canada and the United States, he found 
great difficulty in purchasing, from an Indian Chief, a flint 
dagger that he wore at his belt, and which had been retained as 
an heir loom through several generations, the value of which 
appeared to lie in its ornamental character. 
In time of war between rival tribes, or in the excitement of 
the chase, it is not to be supposed that the highly- wrought and 
valued weapon, such as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, would often be shot 
aw r ay in the dense forest, or over the marsh, or any place where 
the chance of recovery was less than certain. For ordinary 
purposes the easiest made would supply the greatest quantity 
in the shortest amount of time, and therefore be the most in 
demand and most extensively used. 
Thus we may assume that the majority of flake arrow-heads 
are chance productions, more or less so according to the practice 
and skill of the maker ; and the warrior or huntsman selected 
from the chips those flakes that he found most readily adapted 
to his need, without reference to the original intention of the 
manufacturer. Just as Zipporah, Moses’ wife, when in the 
Desert, in obedience to her husband made use of a sharp stone, 
because it was the best suitable for her purpose at the time. 
Becently, while pursuing research in an ancient British burial- 
place, in which the Boman feature of civilisation has largely 
entered* we found in one grave a human skeleton, together with 
two vases, a bronze fibula, some rings, — that from their position 
appeared as if they had been worn on the toes, — parts of an arm- 
let, a specimen of black flint, a core, from which flakes had evi- 
dently been struck. Now, the presence of this core is witness, 
that, although bronze and iron were in use, flint was still 
valued after the Boman invasion. 
It may be thought, that although flint is present in these 
graves, yet the character of the materials found with it, as well 
as the mode of interment, suggest a considerable separation in 
time from the flints found with the pottery in the north of 
Devon and Cornwall. 
In comparing the pottery of these several places with one 
another, those that resembled each other most in character were 
