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slate, discovered on the Ottawa, by George Burland, with a 

 broken gorget and a crescent shaped woman's knife, each of 

 Huronian slate, found on the Bonnechere by Edward Moore, of 

 Douglas, Ont., seem to be additional evidence of the presence of 

 Hurons in the Ottawa Valley. 



There are two other camp sites, however, that differ essenti- 

 ally from the foregoing and are without doubt distinctly Huron. 

 The former of these was discovered by R. H. Haycock, of 

 Ottawa, and the latter by Dr. H. M. Ami, of the Geological 

 Survey. 



In the fall of 1859 and the spring of 1860, the late Edward 

 Haycock built a residence in the city of Hull, on the point now 

 occupied by Gilmour's Mill. While making excavations for the 

 foundation of a summer house, the workmen laid bare several 

 ash-beds, at a depth of from two to three feet below the surface. 

 Among other things, these beds contained fragments of Indian 

 pottery in great abundance.^ Mr. R. H. Haycock examined 

 them closely and reports them as having been of a dark brown 

 color, decorated with incised lines, notches and indentations. 

 According to Mr. Haycock's description, this pottery, both 

 in composition and decoration, was similar to that unearthed 

 from old ash-beds in the Huron country, in Ontario. 



One may observe, on approaching Hull by the Alexandra 

 bridge, an extensive cut bank of sand and gravel, between the 

 E. B. Eddy Co.'s sulphide mill and the end of the bridge, and 

 between Laurier Ave., and the river. This is the place from 

 which the late Edward Haycock procured sand for building 

 purposes on the Eastern and Western Blocks of the Depart- 

 mental buildings, at Ottawa. During the excavation of this 

 bank, a great many Indian reHcs were discovered, such as 

 womens' knives, arrow-heads, tomahawks and pottery, but no 

 description of this pottery is obtainable. Here, according to 

 white and red tradition, many bloody encounters took place 

 between parties ascending or descending the river. 



In the archaeological department of the Geological Museum 

 at Ottawa, there is a large array of pottery fragments collected 

 by Dr. H. M. Ami, some years ago, from an old ash-bed at 

 Casselman, Ont. In the same cases, are specimens of Huron 

 pottery from village sites in western Ontario, and, in comparing 

 the two collections one is quite satisfied that both are products 



*"In some places rude pottery is found at a considerable depth, from 

 different causes. Tn fire-places this may come from the practice of 

 placing the fire in excavations in the ground" Earthenware of the New 

 York Aborigines. William M. Beauchamp, Bulletin, New York State 

 Museum, Vol. 5. No. 22, p. 80. 



