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close to good springs; no objects were found except a single bead of 

 prehistoric wampum and the flat grave stones and perhaps some 

 smaller scoop-stones; more particularly, no traces of Hochelagan 

 pottery or other Hochelagan objects were discovered. The village, 

 if any existed, was apparently of a peaceful, very primitive people, 

 living alone, preceding the advent of the Hochelagans (whom I 

 estimate to have arrived about 1400) , and racially connected more or 

 less nearly with the Southern Algonkins. The pre-European archae- 

 ology df Canada is, unfortunately, an absolutely neglected field. 

 Probably this note may serve as an insignificant contribution. 



Montreal, March 6th, 1922. 



[Since the above was written I have read with eager concurrence the new 

 article on "Anthropology" by Dr. G. Elliot Smith of London University, in the 

 extra volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, in which he outlines the current 

 revolution of opinion regarding the alleged autochthonous origins of New World 

 civiliiations and customs. The custom of stone-lining graves is another instance 

 of the origin of American Indian customs in the Old World. The new order of 

 ideas seems perhaps destined to solve the mystery of the Central American civiliza- 

 tions and oflfers a line of decipherment of their hieroglyphs by comparing them 

 with early Japanese, Chinese and South Asiatic, and ultimately Egyptian, 

 glyphs.— W. D. L.] 



