148 The Ottawa Naturalist. [September 



should be in accepting" second-hand information without verifica- 

 tion. 



The worked flints at Powell's Bay, like those met with at 

 similar places lower down the lake, have been derived from the 

 Trenton formation at the Chaudi^re. They are strewn along the 

 river side of a long- narrow rocky and sandy point that reaches 

 down the river and shelters the mouth of a low marshy creek, which 

 runs into the bay. This point, which is of Laurentian formation, 

 is still a resort for trappers and fishermen. 



The north shore of the Ottawa, at the entrance to Squaw Bay, 

 is a bold outcrop of limestone which rises 15 or 20 feet per- 

 pendicularly from, and in places overhangs, the swift current of 

 the river, a short distance below the Little Chaudi^re Rapids. 

 The bay, which forms an indentation in this cliff of about 100 

 yards in width, extends northward, a distance of 800 feet, to the 

 southern end of Mountain street, or the foot of the declivity which 

 slopes downward from the Hull Electric Railway tracks. The 

 banks of both sides of the bay are bold and rocky, but not so abrupt 

 as the main shore-line of the river. From the upper end of the 

 bay right out to the rocky point which forms its southern extremity, 

 the western shore is strewn more or less, throughout its entire 

 length, with fragments of worked flint, just as we meet with them 

 at similar places on Lake Deschenes higher up the river. 



So far, I have only made a casual examination of this camp- 

 ing site, for the purpose of ascertaining its extent and general 

 features, rather than for the discovery of such details as might 

 throw some light upon its origin and subsequent history. 



To all appearance, it seems as if this spot had been a landing- 

 place at the foot of an old Indian carrying-path, which led up to the 

 head of that break in the canoe route of the Ottawa River caused 

 by theLittle Chaudi^re Rapids. 



There is no doubt that, in pre-historic times, there were 

 periods of tribal inactivity, during which an Indian community 

 may have lived in such peace and comparative security, at Squaw 

 Bay, as to have led even its younger members to indulge in the 

 contemplation of making old bones ; but the situation of the 

 dwelling sites of these palceolithic people bear indubitable evidence 

 that no dream of lasting peace eve^r found them off their guard 



