38 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [Vox. VI. 
fifteen feet below the surface of the shore gravels did not inhabit the 
body of water in which the beds were laid down. 
The Carlton sand and gravel spit has long been known to contain 
deer horns, though so far as I am aware they were never mentioned in 
print before 1884, when Samuel Thompson wrote as follows :—“ While 
speaking of the Carlton gravel ridge, it is worth while to note that, in 
taking gravel from its southern face, at a depth of twenty feet, I found 
an Indian flint arrowhead; also a stone implement similar to what is 
called by painters a muller, used for grinding paint. Several massive 
bones, and the horns of some large species of deer, were also found in 
the same gravel pit, and carried or given away by the workmen. The 
two articles first named are still in my possession. Being at the very 
bottom of the gravel deposit, they must have lain there when no such 
beach existed, or ever since the Oak Ridges ceased to be an ocean 
bed.” * Mr. Bain of the Toronto Public Library was good enough to 
call my attention to the passage just quoted. Mr. Thompson is dead, 
and enquiries as to the arrowhead and muller referred to have been 
fruitless. It is possible that the Indian remains reached their position 
through burial, or were covered by a land slip, though there is no proof 
of this. The finding of a hearth of stones with ashes and charred sticks 
on the Iroquois beach in New York State gives support to Mr. 
Thompson’s evidence of man’s presence in Iroquois times.t 
Last summer several horns were found in a gravel pit on the north 
side of the same spit at a depth of from twelve to twenty feet below the 
surface, the best preserved, just above a layer of clay, perhaps at the 
base of the gravel deposit. They are horns of caribou or reindeer, and 
are so fragile that unless handled very carefully they fall to pieces. 
The specimens which have reached me have been treated with glue by 
Mr. Archibald Pride of the Biological museum and are preserved in fair 
condition. Mr. Pride reports that the large horn first found is a “ shed 
horn of a reindeer, apparently young, from the right side, slender and 
delicate in form, about three feet three inches in length, measured by 
the curve, or two feet six inches from burr to tip, making allowance for 
the point of the horn which is broken off.” The second, “a fragment 
of another reindeer’s shed horn found near the former but on a different 
level, has the same characteristics as the almost entire antler above 
) 
described 
“ The last horn found, upon close examination undoubtedly that of a 
reindeer, is a right shed horn, worn by water and sand, and probably 
from a fine large male. The first, or brow antler, a palmated or 
* Reminiscences of a Canadian Pioneer, 1884, p. 286. 
t 6th An. Rep. State Res. Niagara, Dr. Gilbert, p, 84. 
‘ 
— es 
ti ite ee 
