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I ain miicli indebted to Mr. Henry Frye, of St. George, New Bruns- 

 wick, for permission to examine this locality, the scientific interest of 

 which he appears fully to appreciate. 



No. 10 A. — Uast side of Digidcquash River ^ Passaniaquoddy Bay, New 

 BrunswicJc. — Not very productive. 



No. lOB.—Roquc'S Island, Maine. — Tliis is on the southern side of an 

 islaiul bordering on Roque's Island thoroughfare, which separates Roque's 

 Island from Spruce Island, and situated between Machias and Quoddy 

 Head. The bed here was 3 feet thick, with old loam above it nearly a 

 foot thick, the whole extending nearly a mile. This locality was not 

 visited by myself, but reported by Lieut. J. A. Slocum, of the revenue- 

 cutter Mosswood. 



No. 11. — Green Point along Letite, Fassamaquoddy Bay, Maine. — Not 

 examined. 



No. 12. — Seely^s Cove. — Not examined. 



No. 13. — Bocahec, Passaniaquoddy Bay. — Not examined. 



No. 13a. — Bamariscotta, Me. — The shells of this well-known locality 

 consist almost entirely of oysters, the beds covering many acres in 

 extent to a depth of from 5 to 15 or 20 feet. The oysters were all very 

 large and usually narrow or slipper-shaped. Very few are now found 

 living in the vicinity. The number of worked bones of animals or of 

 stone implements, mixed with the shells, is extremely small ; a long 

 search of perhaps an hour will sometimes be necessary before anything 

 of the kind can be detected. 



No. 13/>. — Bocabec. — Not examined. 



These constitute the i^rincipal localities examined in Eastern Maine 

 and New Brunswick. As already stated, they are characterized in some 

 cases by large beds of shells of the soft clam {Myaarenaria), never of the 

 quahaug or Venus mercenaria, with a little admixture of earth ; in others 

 the shells are in a much decomposed condition, with black earth scat- 

 tered among them; again, by the association of large bones, especially 

 of the moose and caribou, with but little mixture of anything else. Occa- 

 sionally these beds alternated with pure shell or pure bone, possibly 

 the shells being aggregated in summer and the bones of mammals in 

 winter. Everywhere the bones of the great auk were found, as also 

 those of the beaver. The only other localities examined in Maine were 

 some islands in Casco Bay, where the bones of the great auk were un- 

 usually abundant. 



No. 13B. — Wantaslet Beach, Boston Harbor. — At various points in the 

 vicinity of this beach are found numerous seams and hillocks of shells, 

 consisting, however, almost entirely of Mactra solidissima, or horse-clams ; 

 neither 3Iya nor Venus were observed. The deposits are small and situ- 

 ated in the sand. The principal locality examined was near Skull Head. 



No. 13C. — EagJe Hill, near IpsicicJi, Mass. — This locality is widely 

 known from the investigations made therein by Messrs. Morse, Putnam, 

 and other Massachusetts specialists. 



The aboriginal shell beds are very extensive, and consist very largely 



