G74 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 



and headland in Miegomish Harbor. In the neighboring counties on 

 the northern shore of the province, the same thing is to be found, 

 particularly at Antigomish Harbor to the east, and at Tatamagouche 

 to the west. 



There is scarcely anything in this province that can be called a 

 mound or earthwork, at all events like those found in the Western 

 States. There was found some years ago, at Tataiuagouche, a small 

 heap. It was situated on the farm of the late Eev. Hugh Iloss, next 

 to A. Campbell's, which forms Campbell's Point, at the entrance of the 

 harbor. It was opened and examined some fifty years ago by the late 

 Dr. Thomas McCulloch, of Pictou, who found in it a large number of 

 human bones, and various stone implements. He published no account 

 of them, but I have learned that he came to the conclusion that it was a 

 place where a large a number had been buried, probably after a battle. 

 The spot has long been plowed over, and the ground leveled. 



There was another found at Kempt, Yarmouth County, in the west- 

 ern part of the province. The spot where it was found was some fif- 

 teen miles in the interior, and some distance from the river. It was 

 opened by Dr. Joseph Bond, of Bear Eiver, Digby County, JST. S., and 

 from him I learned that it was about ten feet in length, five feet in 

 width, and four feet in height. It has been represented to me as re- 

 sembling a large cradle hill. In this were found forty very beautifully 

 executed stone-arrow or spear-heads, which are now in the couutj' mu- 

 seum at Yarmouth, established byL. E. Baker, esq., who has had them 

 photograjihed. Dr. Bond supposed that it was an ancient burying 

 place, tbough he found no bones, for which he accounted by supposing 

 that they had become so entirely decayed as to be no longer recogniza- 

 ble. But Dr. John W. Webster, of Yarmouth, informed me that from 

 the material around he believetl it had been the site of an old work- 

 shop. This might be the case, and the mound might have been a cache 

 of such implements. 



I have seen some thin layers of shell at points on the shores of our 

 harbors, but I am told that there are some of considerable thickness at 

 points in Miegomish Harbor. They are generally close by the shore, 

 and the sea, wearing away the soil, exposes them on the banks. But 

 none in this part of the country have undergone a proper examina- 

 tion. 



Thereare in the museum ofthe Mechanics' Institute, St. John, N.B., two 

 sculptures. The one is very rude, and will be found figured in Dawson's 

 Acadian Geology. The other is a medallion of about fifteen inches in 

 diameter, containing a rather well-executed i)rofile of a human head. 

 But I am not certain that this was found in the j^rovince. 



The rocks on the north shore of tlie province are soft, and are being 

 worn away so rapidly that if there had been any carving upon them it 

 would long ere now have disappeared. In Yarmouth a stone has been 



