fragments
of stone, obviously made in manufacturing arrow heads and other
implements, together with a bushel or more of perfect and imperfect
arroAY heads all of grey flint.
On the house lot of the writer, in the village of Middlebury,
several years ago, Avas ploughed up an Indian pestle of hard grey
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Stone, made round and smooth, and rounded at the ends, about fif-
teen inches long and tvf o and a half inches in diameter.
Mr. RuFUS Mead, editor of the Middleburj Register^ states,
that on the farm on vrhich his father lived, and his grandfather was
an early settler, in the west part of Cornwall, have been found
large numbers of arrow and spear heads, from two to five inches in
length, and, among them, stone chips, worked off in the construc-
tion of arrowfound in this countr3^ Otter Creek, and Lemon Fair, Avhich
empties into it, are navigable for boats from the head of the falls at
Vergennes to this place.
Deacon Warner states, that on his farm in Cormvall, first set-
tled by Benjamix HamlIxV, were found, at an early day, a great
variety of Indian relics, arrow heads, spear heads, and other imple-
ments of Avhich he does not know the use : also chippings and frag-
ments of stone, made in the construction of the articles, and defect-
ive and broken implements. Some of the articles were made of
flint stone, and some, designed for ornament, of slate. This locality
is on a rise of ground near a Beaver Brook and Beaver Meadow.
The brook empties into Lemon Fair, and is navigable for boats from
that stream, except in dry