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flakes of felsite and other stones used in the manufacture of arrow- 
heads, etc., indicating the possibility that the old shore of these lakes 
is now under water, owing to the submergence of the intervals, due to 
the rise of the river water in consequence of the inflowing tide. 
À curious confirmation of this conjecture is Ring Creek,” on the 
western shore of Maquapit lake. This is a creek of considerable depth 
in the form of a half-circle, which has its two openings on the lake, now 
silted up to a shallow strand at each outlet. A little to the north on 
this lake shore is the similar shallow opening of the thoroughfare, or 
creek, from French lake, and a little to south of Ring creek a like en- 
trance to the thoroughfare that leads to Grand lake. The only raison 
d'être for Ring creek is that it is a part of a continuous passage or 
“thoroughfare” that once connected French lake with Grand lake over 
a zone of interval or alluvial deposit now submerged beneath Maquapit 
lake. There is a camping site on the island enclosed by this creek. 
On the shores of French lake, as at Apple island in that lake, we 
found fragments and stone implements, scattered in the gravel of the 
beach which indicated a camping site on the lake shore ; but no out- 
lines of hut bottoms or other structures remain on the banks above the 
beach. The destruction of the remains of such occupation by man, may 
however have been due to the violent surf which would roll on these 
shores when the spring floods of the St. John river annually converts 
this region into a vast, but shallow lake. Whatever the cause, no traces 
of habitations now exist. 
Coming to Washademoak lake, the centre of the dispersion of the 
carnelian, there appear to be similar indications that the occupation of 
these shores by men of the stone age antedates the present configura- 
tion of the lake and river borders. © 
We have remarked upon the fact that stone chips in numbers are 
scattered through the gravel of the beach at McDonald’s Point ; this is 
the case as far down as the beach is uncovered at low water in summer 
time. As on revisiting this locality after a year’s interval a fresh crop 
of chips was found to have been worked out from the gravel to the sur- 
face of the beach by the storms that sweep down the lake in the spring 
and autumn, it would appear that the present position of the beach is 
the site where the work of fashioning stone implements and weapons 
was carried on, and that this site in ancient times was above the reach 
of the waters of the lake at summer level. 
An encroachment of the waters of the lake to the depth of two feet 
would soon by the beating of the waves upon the beach, remove all traces 
of habitations that may have existed before the submergence. So it 
