1866.] 83 [Bicknell. 



Strata had yet been explored, to expect much success in a search for 

 them, remarking that the number of known specimens from the pres- 

 ent surtace of the earth v/as very small. The British Museum had only 

 two hundred and twenty-five specimens, Vienna only one hundred 

 and sixty-six, the Jardin des Plantes about the same, and the Amherst 

 collection but two hundred ; and that these all represented probably 

 only about two hundred and fifty falls in all. Considering how 

 much the surface of the earth had been worked over, with so few 

 results, it is no wonder that in the rocks which had been far less dis- 

 turbed, no meteorites had yet been found. 



Mr. Edwin Bicknell read a letter giving a description of a 

 sculjstured stone found at Lake Utopia, New Brunswick. 



This curious Indian relic, said the writer, is a basso-relievo, sculp- 

 tured in red granite. It is of an oval shape, twenty-one inches long, 

 eighteen inches wide, and one inch and a half thick. Although 

 much worn and defaced by time and weather, it still retains evi- 

 dence of having been executed by a bold and skilful hand. It was 

 found in the month of November, 1863, at the foot of a precipice of 

 red granite, on the western side of, and distant about a quarter of a 

 mile from, the shores of Lake Utopia in Charlotte County, Province 

 of New Brunswick. When shown to the Indians who fi-equent the 

 neighborhood, they at once pronounced it to be the portrait of a 

 chief, and remarked that it was probable his body was buried near the 

 spot where the stone was found. 



The tribe of Indians living at Lake Utopia, are the Passamaquod- 

 dies, descendants of the old Delawai'e stock, who for generations have 

 made that locality their favorite haunt. The Indians are very skilful 

 in their representations of the beaver, and other animals, and I have 

 seen some very beautiful specimens sculptured in bas-relief on the 

 bowls of pipes ; they were anatomically correct in drawing, and 

 would do credit to a professional artist. The Indians who have seen 

 the stone, were completely at a loss to account for the style and quan- 

 tity of the hair represented on the head, as from time immemorial it 

 was customary for the Indians to shave or pluck out all the hair, with 

 the exception of the scalp-lock, and although the shape of the head 

 and features are decidedly Indian, there is an Egyptian character 

 about it when viewed as a whole, which gives rise to curious ethnol- 

 ogical speculations as to its origin, and by what people it was exe- 

 cuted. 



It was remarked that in the abundance of hair, which was cut 

 square oflT behind, in the outline of the lace from the forehead to the 

 nose, and in the absence of massiveness of the lower jaw, there was 



