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generally upon the brow of tlie river bank in a commanding position, 

 though sometimes on lower ground. In diameter they vary from 4 or 

 5 to 15 feet, and in depth from 2 or 3 inches to 2 or more feet. They 

 consist principally of oyster, clam, and quahaug shells. Stone imple- 

 ments have been found in the vicinity of shell heaps in great numbers, 

 though not of many siiccies. This I attribute to the fact that the In- 

 dians living hereabout used shells for many purposes. The Pilgrims 

 on landing upon our shores found in the wigwams baskets formed by 

 sewing together shells of the horseshoe crab. I have a collection of 

 nearly a hundred spear and arrow points of stone, in about every form 

 represented in Schoolcraft's large work on the Indian tribes of the United 

 States. I have also a stone pestle, ax, hatchet, and a fragment of a 

 stone mortar or kettle. All up and down the peninsula of Cape Cod 

 are to be found stone implements of the kinds mentioned above — though 

 in the attack upon the Pilgrims atNamskaket Creek, in 1620, the arrows 

 used by the Indians were tipped with brass, eagles' claws, and bits of 

 horn. This last fact led some writers to suppose that the Indians conld 

 find no suitable material on the cape for constructing their imple- 

 ments. Though there are no outcropping ledges on the cape, yet there 

 are many bowlders and fragments of rock which the Indians found suited 

 to their purposes. I know of several ancient burial x)Iaces, but they 

 have not been examined, or, if they have, I am not aware of the fact. 



A SCTJLPTUEED STONE FOUND IN ST. GEOEGB, NEWBEUNS- 



WICK. 



By J. Allen Jack, of St, John, N. B, 



In the autumn of 1863 or winter of 1864, a remarkable sculptured 

 stone, representing a human face and head in profile, was discovered in 

 the neighborhood <5f St. George, a village in Charlotte County, in the 

 province of New Brunswick, Canada. This curiosity was found by a 

 man who was searching for stone for building purposes, and was lying 

 about 100 feet from the shore of Lake Utopia, under a bluff of the same 

 formation as the material on which the head is sculptured, which 

 abounds in the neighborhood. This bluff is situated three itiiles or more 

 from St. George, and Lake Utopia empties into the Magaguadavic 

 Eiver, or, as it may be translated from Indian into English, the Eivor of 

 Hills, which flows towards and pours through the village in the form of 

 a beautiful waterfall. The stone, irrespective of the cutting, which is 

 in relief, has a flat surface, and is of the uniform thickness of 2 inclies. 

 Its form is rounded elliptical, and it measures 21^ inches longitudinally 

 and 18J inches across the shorter diameter. The stone is granulite, being 

 distinguished from granite proper by the absence of mica. The sculp- 

 ture, shortly after it was discovered, attracted a good deal of attention, 



