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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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