[ganong] stone medallion OF LAKE UTOPIA 89 



the local papers announced his demise, that he was living so lately, I 

 missed the opportunity to secure his own testimony on the discovery 

 of the stone; but his daughter, Mrs. F. S. Welton, to whom I applied 

 for her knowledge of the matter, wrote me, September 29, 1915, such 

 information thereon as she had. She was a very small child when it 

 was found, but had heard it talked of in the family, and her father 

 had spoken of it not long before his death. She adds: 



There is no doubt my father is the real finder of the stone Father 



took it to town. While he was there a friend of his got it and took it to the museum 



He took it away from home because my mother did not want to keep 



it in the house. 



For completion of the literature we may add a few references 

 otherwise of slight interest. 



In a letter written by the late G. A. Boardman of Calais, Me., to 

 Professor Baird, then Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 

 {The Naturalist of the Saint Croix, Bangor, 1903, 202), under date 

 29 October, 1868, occurs the sentence, " I have heard more about the 

 stone profile found In the old mound at St. George, but am afraid we 

 cannot get it as it has been sent to St. John; but next summer perhaps 

 you may talk them out of it, or at any rate you can get the loan of it, 

 or perhaps exchange." Fortunately the blandishments of the Secre- 

 tary, if ever exercised, failed of effect, but possibly he thus obtained 

 the "cast in the United States National Museum" mentioned in the 

 Report of that Museum for 1896, 485, where I. Allen Jack's drawing 

 is reprinted, with some comments. There is also a brief account of 

 the stone, with a cut, in a highly interesting and appreciative article 

 on Lake Utopia by E. J. Russell in Canadian Illustrated News, VI, 

 November 30, 1872. The brief account of the stone given by C. C. 

 Ward in Scrihner's Monthly as aforementioned is reprinted with a 

 cut in The Canadian Antiquarian and Numismatic Journal, VI, 1878, 

 pp. 166-7, under the title "Stone Medallion found at St. George, 

 N.B." A lost document of the first importance is Mr. Wetmore's 

 own account of the finding of the stone, which Dr. G. F. Matthew 

 tells me was formerly in MS. among the records of the Natural 

 History Society; but a thorough search has failed to reveal it. Other 

 mentions of the stone occur in local literature, but without original 

 data, so far as I know. 



Of course I have myself tried to glean additional data from 

 residents of St. George whose memories go back to the event of the 

 discovery, and, needless perhaps to say, I have analysed such testi- 

 mony in full knowledge of its slight value in comparison with con- 

 temporary records. All of any worth that I have found here follows. 



