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of shells of the Myaj or soft clam. The number of stoue iinplemeuts aud 

 of worked bone is, however, extremely small, much less than in the shell 

 heaps of Maine and JSlew Brunswick. 



No locality on the coast perhaps furnishes so many fresh clams for 

 commercial purposes as the vicinity of Ipswich, ploughs being used for 

 turning them up. They are obtained by the thousands of barrels for 

 bait for codfish, aud the refuse shells constitute masses of enormous 

 magnitude. 



]S^o. 14. — Xonamesset Island, near Naushonj Buzzard\s Bay. — This local- 

 ity is in the inner Hadley's Harbor, on Nick's Neck, the property of 

 Mr. John J\I. Forbes, and nearly opposite to Wood's Holl, Mass. The 

 heap is very extensive, covering quite an area of the beach, and abounds 

 in bones of the deer. The shells are principally soft clams {Mya,), with 

 a few quahaugs and pectens. The stone implements are extremely scarce. 



No. 15. — Great Earhor, ^yood^s Holl, 2Iass. — Quite an interesting local- 

 ity exists on Long Neck, to the west of the guano factory. The deposit 

 covers about one hundred square yards to a depth of a foot. The shells 

 consist almost entirely of Crepidiila plana. Bones were very scanty, and 

 quite a notable jiroportion of these were of birds. Very few stone im- 

 plements were found. 



No. 16. — Parker'' s Point, Wood's Roll. — On the east side of Parker's 

 Point, opposite the low, depressed portion, is quite an extensive bed of 

 almost entire clam-shells, the quahaug, or hard clam ( Venus mercenaria), 

 and but little broken. The locality covers al)out two hundred square 

 yards, to a depth of about two feet. No implements or bones of any 

 kind were ever found in this locality. 



No. 17. — Quisset Harbor, on Buzzard's Bay, north of Wood''s Holl. — 

 Here the heai^s consisted entirely of shells of the quahaug. No bones 

 nor imidements of any kind were found. 



No. 18. — Cataumet Harbor, Xorth Falmouth, Bnzzard''s Bay. — Here is 

 a very large deposit of quahaug shells, on a point in Squeteague Pond; 

 but no bones or implements. 



No. 19. — Mud Core, back of Toby Island, north end of Buzzard's Bay. — 

 Here, as in the three preceding localities, the deposit consisted also ot 

 shells, without any bones or implements. 



I have already referred to the abundance of bones of the great auk 

 in the shell heaps of New Brunswick and Maine. They also occur in 

 considerable numbers at Eagle Hill, near Ipswich. I do not remember 

 to have found any myself on Cape Cod, but am under the impression 

 that Professor Wyman reports them as discovered by him at Cotuit, on 

 Vineyard Sound. There is certainly a great scarcity of stone imple- 

 ments in the shell heaps of Southern Massachusetts, compared with 

 what we find farther north. 



All the collections made by me at the localities mentioned in the 

 present paper are now in the National Museum. 



