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No chalcedonic veins similar to those of Washademoak lake are 
known to the north of these lakes, for beyond them stretches a wide 
expanse of coal measures, which are devoid of veins of this mineral. 
These various finds appear to point to the fact that this material, 
which readily lends itself to the manipulation of the aboriginal artificer 
in stone, was really an article of barter; or at least of sufficient import- 
ance to be sought for, and carried considerable distances by the men of 
the stone age. 
Interest in these beautiful and finely finished weapons induced the 
writer to seek the locality from which the material came, of which 
they were fabricated and to study its distribution. 
Dr. Abraham Gesner appears to have discovered the place where 
this mineral occurs. At page 60 of his third report on the Geology of 
New Brunswick, he gives the following description of the locality and 
the rock :— 
* On the south-east side of a small cove (Belyea’s Cove), the shore 
is strewed to the distance of half a mile with loose masses of hornstone, 
jasper, Egyptian jasper, chalcedony and quartz. The jasper is chiefly 
of a red colour and passes into a milky chalcedony, being arranged in 
spots and clouds, and shaded with smoky imitative figures. Associated 
with the jasper is that variety called Hgyptian jasper, which is dis- 
tinguished from the other by peculiar zones, circles and clouds of 
different colours. With these a few small pieces of carnelian were 
found ; but in general, this mineral is too much fractured to afford 
good specimens. These minerals evidently belong to some trap dyke 
in the neighbourhood. The sandstones here form cliffs on the shore, 
or appear beneath its broken fragments.” 
Prof. L. W. Bailey who has visited the locality from which Dr. 
Gesner procured his specimens, stated to me that the veins occur in a 
limestone of Lower Carboniferous age at or near the place mentioned 
by Dr. Gesner. 
The writer did not see this place though he found another locality 
near McDonald’s point, where the same mineral occurs in Lower Car- 
boniferous strata, but in somewhat different relations. Here, on 
searching along the south shore of Washademoak lake, chalcedony was 
found in thin irregular seams in a low bank of Lower Carboniferous 
shale on the west side of Belyea’s Cove, which is the first important 
cove on the south side of the lake above its entrance. The locality was 
detected by numerous fragments of the rock found on the stony beach 

