JADE
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stream flowing from the Mount F airweather
range, which later was covered by the
advancing ice.

The jade celts used as adzes by the
Tlingit were, like the smaller ones, found
on the Fraser. It is generally believed
that they were procured in finished form.

SUPERSEDED BY METAL

The culture of the early inhabitants of the
valley of the Fraser, as read from archeo-
logical objects dug from old village-sites
on the river benches, continued to recent
times with little variation from that of the
Salish people met hereabouts by the early
European visitors, who brought them our
products, particularly iron, that put an end
to the laborious manufacture of edged
tools of jade. The sudden transition from
stone to metal seems evident in the number
of partly cut bowlders of superior quality
showing deep grooves on each face, almost
separating the halves, but left unfinished.
The only definite statement as to the period
when celts were last made was given to
the writer by a man about sixty years of

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