DISTRIBUTION

Washington, and as far north as Lewis
river, a tributary of the Yukon. At the
mouth of the Fraser, on the contiguous
islands, and on the eastern shore of Van-
couver island, cut bowlders and celts of
jade have been found in considerable num-
bers, having unquestionably come down
the river through centuries of trade, and
possibly through migration. With more
extended knowledge of the several moun-
tain systems paralleling the coast, there
is every reason to believe that under favor-
able geological conditions jade will be dis-
covered throughout an extended area;
but this will not controvert the fact that
the material, both crude and _ finished,
found along the coast of British Columbia
and southern Alaska, came from the Fraser
River district. The writer has made
extended trips inland on the Skeena, Nass,
Stikine, and Chilkat rivers, during which
he found no evidence of local deposits as
known to the inhabitants, no single rough
or worked bowlders, and a_ noticeable
scarcity of celts. -

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