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Histoi'ic Sites- 



on the Law farm just above Rexton on the north side of the river 

 at a place still called " Indian Fields. " Another possible Indian 

 liocality was just within the mouth of the Aldouane on the north side 

 where an old burial ground is known, though probably this was 

 French. (see later under Acadian Period). 



231. The Renous Indian Reserve is not on the Renous River, but on the Mir- 

 amichi a short distance above its mouth, See Map 1 of Settlement 

 Origins. 



231. There is an Indian Brook just above the North Pole Branch of the Little 



Southwest Miramichi, marked on the best maps; and there is also 

 an Indian Lake at the extreme head of the Tuadook, or Southwest, 

 Branch of the same river (Bulletin of the N. B. Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 XXIII, 324). It is said locally that an old camp site is known at 

 Porters Cove, in Ludlow, on the north side of the Main Southwest 

 Miramichi and another on the South side at the foot of Stewart Hill, 

 near McNamee. 



232. Tomogonops Pipestone Quarry. An important Indian locality of the Mir- 



amichi was the important old pipestone quarry on the Tomogonopes, 

 a branch of the Northwest Miramichi. As described to me by a 

 resident who knows it personally, the quarry is in a ledge across 

 the stream about six miles from its mouth. The pipestone is soft 

 where kept wet by the stream, but is much harder where dry above 

 its surface. The rock is taken away and used as whetstones etc, 

 by residents of the Northwest, one of whom has given me a piece 

 said to come from this quarry. Professor J. E. Wolff of Harvard 

 University to whom I submitted the specimen tells me it is a very 

 fine-grained variety of sericite schist, and seems to fulfil the 

 requirements (soft enough to cut easily, does not crack or disinteg- 

 rate with a moderate degree of heat and has a certain capacity for 

 absorption of oily matter) of a pipestone. 



232, It is said locally there was an important camp-site some 300 yards 

 below the church at the mouth of the Bart 



232. I have also been told there was a camp-site of some importance on 

 Murdoch's land at the mouth of the Napan, between that river and 

 Miramichi. The place is known locally because of the small-pox 

 epidemic which attacked the Indians here some years ago. 



232. It is said locally there was a camp-site of some consequence on the 

 north shore of Beaubears Island, about 200 yards from its eastern 

 end, in a charming situation, with a spring. 



232. It is said locally there was an Indian camp-site on the Canadian Marsh 



opposite French Fort Cove. 

 232. An old plan in the Crown Land Office shows an Indian village and 



improvements on a point just below the head of tide, north side, 



of the Little Southwest Miramichi, about a mile from its mouth.. 



This is «very likely the place mentioned as old Indian Town in 



Collections N. B. Hist Soc. II, 95. 



Sec. II., 1906. 6. 



