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265-7, and it is reprinted in full, with unimportant verbal changes, 

 in Acadiensis, II, 1902, 267-75, where it is illustrated by an inferior 

 map but by a superior picture from the same photograph as that which 

 accompanies the present paper. Mr. Jack, a well-known late resident 

 and prominent barrister of St. John, much interested in local matters 

 of this kind, states that his article is based on "a tolerable knowledge 

 of the history of Charlotte County and of the province, and an im- 

 perfect memory and record of the contents of several letters received 

 from various persons upon the principal subject. . . . The letters 

 which were written to assist me in preparing a paper upon the stone, 

 subsequently read before the Natural History Society of New Bruns- 

 wick . . . were unfortunately destroyed in the great fire of St. John. 

 The paper itself was preserved, and embodies at least a portion of 

 the contents of the letter[s]." These statements accord with the 

 minutes of the Natural History Society, which read under date 

 12th February, 1864, — ^"Mr. Allen Jack then read by request some 

 letters describing the head of an Indian carved in stone found near 

 Lake Utopia Charlotte County"; and again under 11th March, 1864, 

 "Mr. A. Jack then read the Paper of the evening — ^Subject, the medal- 

 lion found at Lake Eutopia". The minute then adds, — -"On motion 

 resolved . . . That Dr. [C. K.] Fisk be a Committee to procure further 

 information, if possible, on the medallion"; but no sequel to this 

 resolution appears. Thus, although Mr. Jack's paper is of 1881, it is 

 based on information gathered by himself, evidently from those 

 concerned in the discovery of the stone, soon after that event. As 

 to the discovery the paper reads: 



In the autumn of 1863 or winter of 1864, a remarkable sculptured stone, repre- 

 senting a human face and head in profile, was discovered in the neighbourhood 

 of St. George, a village in Charlotte County, in the Province of New Brunswick, 

 Canada. This curiosity was found by a man who was searching for stone for 

 building purposes, and was lying about 100 feet from the shore of Lake Utopia, 

 under a bluff of the same formation as the material on which the head is sculptured, 



which abounds in the neighbourhood The sculpture, shortly after it 



was discovered, attracted a good deal of attention. 



With respect to the obvious possibility that the stone is a modern 

 fabrication, Mr. Jack writes thus: 



Opinion, at the time of discovery, was somewhat divided, both in regard to 

 the nationality of the workman by whom the stone was carved and also in respect to 



the object of the work The appearance and position of the stone when 



discovered, to which I shall presently more particularly refer, convince me that it 

 was not carved for the purpose of deceiving scientific investigators, as might be, 

 and I believe, has been, charged 



I believe that the finder, who, as I have stated, was searching for stone for 

 building purposes, was attracted by the shape of the stone in question; that it 



