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. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 0 G ^ 0. Fig. 28. Enropean objects from monnds. 48 miles from the Mississippi. - - - Pierre Island is some dis- tance above, near which, from a hill on the western side, the Indians procure a flevhe or arrow-stone, with which they make their gun flints and point their ; On an old map, furnished to Governor Ed- wards in 1812 by John Hoy, a Frenchman, is found a creek marked Pierre a la Fleche. In a letter to the Secretary of War,
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 0 G ^ 0. Fig. 28. Enropean objects from monnds. 48 miles from the Mississippi. - - - Pierre Island is some dis- tance above, near which, from a hill on the western side, the Indians procure a flevhe or arrow-stone, with which they make their gun flints and point their ; On an old map, furnished to Governor Ed- wards in 1812 by John Hoy, a Frenchman, is found a creek marked Pierre a la Fleche. In a letter to the Secretary of War, May, 1812, Gov- ernor Edwards called this creek the Arrowstone. It is now known as Flint Creek. The French no doubt derived the name from the Indians,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents; United States National Museum. Report of the U. S. National Museum; Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary. Washington : Smithsonian Institution
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