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ill the field and covered with thick sod. These heaps show very few 

 bones, and very seklom any stone implements. They appear to have 

 been casual in their origin, and do not mark long continued settlements. 



Cormorant bones were found quite abundantly in the JSTantucket Island 

 heaps. There appeared to be an unusual scarcity of bones of fishes in the 

 Grand Menan deposits, and those chiefly of small fishes, such as sculpins, 

 and the like. Bones of codfish, and perhaps even of goose-fish, and other 

 large fish were more common at Eagle Hill, Ipswich, where the mounds, 

 while abounding in the bones of fish, furnished very few of mammals and 

 birds. 



No. 7. — Pope Logan, Lepreau Bay. — Tlie locality \isited is on Holland's 

 farm, on the north part of the island and west of the westernmost saw- 

 mill. Of the numerous deposits in the \icinity only one was examined; 

 this revealed an abundance of shells of the soft clam [Mya arenaria), 

 still found in numbers in the neighborhood, the locality being celebrated 

 all along the coast in this respect. 



The shell heap examined is on a sloping bank descending to the south, 

 the lower end being about 10 feet above high tide, and occupying an area 

 of 150 feet by 50, and having a depth of 20 feet in the several layers. 

 The shells were, for the most part, entire and unstratitied, with very 

 little mixture of earth. The bones of large mammals, such as the moose, 

 and probably the caribou, were extremely abundant, occurring by the 

 cart-load. They were much less broken up than usual. 



No. 8. — Bliss's Island. New BrnnsioicTx. — This locality is situated near 

 the head of the bay on the right hand of Pentlow's Cove, to the south- 

 west. Here the shells occur in thin, compact layers on the bank facing 

 the northwest, much mixed with black dust. The deposit is scanty and 

 scarcely worth working. 



iTo. 9. — Bliss's Island, Fisherman's Cove, New Brnnswiclc. — This locality 

 is on the northeast side and north of the weirs. Here the shells occur 

 unstratitied in a bed about 20 inches thick, almost free from mixture, and 

 covered with a light, loose soil, G to 10 inches deei). Very few bones 

 were found. 



No. 10. — Frye's or Cailiff^s Island, New Brunsii'icli. — This bed was one 

 of the richest I have ever examined. It is situated on English Cove, 

 directly opposite Bliss's Island, to the east of Long Point. It is near the 

 ffjrni buildings, between two willows. Here theshcll bed was a very large 

 one, about 15 feet above the present high tide, and seems to have been 

 torn up by the t:de and restratifled by the water, so that articles of the 

 same kind and specific gravity were usually found in association. The 

 layers consisted of black beach gravel, alternating with nearly pure 

 gravel. The total bed was from 20 to 30 inches thick, the productive 

 layers occupying only a few inches of it. The shells had been cast in 

 strata on either side of a ravine or gulch, along the l)ottom<l)f which there 

 were but few shells, but containing ncnrlyall the bones an<l stone imple- 

 ments of the original bed mixed with gravel. West of this locality is 

 another bed at a lower level than the first. 



