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however, to satisfy myself on that point, having been assured by my friend Mr. 

 Wetmore, of St. Stephen, to whom it was presented by the workman, that he saw 

 the moss growing on the slab, and was among the first to visit the spot, when he 

 inspected it in situ. 



No mention of the medallion occurs in records of the meetings of 

 the Boston Society of Natural History, as I am informed by the 

 secretary. 



In an article on Lake Utopia in the sportsman's journal Forest 

 and Stream in 1892 (reprinted in the St. John Daily Telegraph, July 5, 

 1892) the late Edward Jack, relative of I. Allen Jack, a great observer 

 of natural features of the Province, and a resident of St. George at 

 the time the stone was discovered, speaks of it thus: 



Many years since there was a stone mason residing not far from the point 



where the Magaguadavic jumps into old ocean [i.e., above St. George]. 



One day when this mason was looking over the broken pieces of granite 



lying on the hillside on the west shore of Eutopia, to obtain some for the uses of 

 his business, his eye fell on an oval piece 21 in. in length by 18 in breadth; when 

 he had turned this over he saw to his amazement sculptured on it in low relief, the 



head and profile of a man The mason took his prize to the shore of 



the lake and rowed home with it. Then he arrived there, he placed his treasure 

 trove in front of his cottage, but his wife refused to allow it to remain, saying that 

 "it glowered at her," good proof of the ancient unknown sculptor's skill. The 

 mason was, I think, Scotch, which may account for the fact that instead of doing 

 as the crafty Arabs did with the Moabite stone, that is to say, break it in pieces, 

 he took it to St. George, and for the consideration of $4, sold it to Mr. A, I. Wetmore, 

 collector of that port. 



In an historical article in the St. Croix Courier, published at 

 St. Stephen, N.B., January 28, and February 4, 1892, Mr. James 

 Vroom, of whose knowledge we speak below, gives some account 

 of the stone, including the following: 



Most people living in the east of this county have either seen or heard of the 

 'Laney Stone,' a slab of rad granite found at Lake Utopia about twenty-five years 

 ago, on one side of which was carved in relief the representation of a human head. 

 It seems hard to believe that such work could have been done without metal tools; 

 yet the pioneers of Acadia found no metal tools in use among the natives. Unless 

 this unique carving is of comparatively recent date, it is difficult to escape the con- 

 clusion that it is a relic either of an extinct people or of a prehistoric settlement of 

 Europeans here; in which case it is strange that no further traces of such a people 

 have been seen. 



The name Laney Stone I find applied to it also in a biblio- 

 graphical note in the Bulletin of the Natural History Society of New 

 Brunswick, IV, 1901, 299. James Laney was the name of the mason 

 who discovered the stone. He removed subsequently from St. George, 

 lived for a time at Milltown, N.B., and about 1880 settled in Minne- 

 apolis, Minn., where he died in 1915, aged 93 years. Unaware, until 



