SECTION II., 1900. for] Trans. R. 8. C. 
IV.—A Quarry and Workshop of the Stone Age in New Brunswick. 
By G. F. Marruew, M.A., LL.D. 
(Read Mav 29, 1900.) 
Some twenty years ago the author in collecting stone implements 
on the shores of the Kennebecasis river in Kings county, New Bruns- 
wick, had met with occasional well finished implements of carnelian, 
chalcedony and agate. 
On comparing the material of which these were made with speci- 
mens of these minerals which were in the Gesner museum of the Natural 
History Society of New Brunswick, no difference of a material kind was 
observed. 
These minerals of the Gesner collection were from Washademoak 
lake in Queen’s county, which occupies a valley some distance to the 
north of Kennebecasis valley. At the time when the carnelian objects 
were collected in Kennebecasis valley it seemed probable that they had 
been fabricated on the Kennebecasis river from pieces of stones swept 
southward to that river from Washademoak valley by glacial ice (as the 
southward transportation of such material as the surface stones of a 
country during the glacial period is a well established fact). Rough 
pieces of agate apparently from such a source were found along the 
shores of the Kennebecasis river. 
More extended observations on the St. John river made at a later 
period, on the occasion of a summer camp of observation held by the 
Natural History Society of New Brunswick at French lake in Sunbury 
county, suggests another interpretation of the occurrence of these stone 
implements of the ornamental varieties of quartz on Kennebecasis river, 
namely that they have been carried there by men of the stone age, and 
not made on the spot, nor transported by ice. 
For instance, at Indian Point on Grand lake,‘ which is to the 
north of Washademoak valley, chalcedonic material similar to that 
found in this valley has been found mingled with felsitic and other 
stones used for the manufacture of stone weapons. 
Following up the chain of lakes of which Grand lake is the last, 
but most important, similar varieties of carnelian and chalcedony were 
found on the shores of Maquapit lake, the next of the chain, and also 
around French lake the third of the series, which itself is a double lake. 


1 See accompanying map of the Lake region of St. John R. valley, p. 63. 
