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itself as a most promising field for search, and perhaps, as 

 some have supposed, the reported lesser glacial erosion there 

 might be a favourable factor, yet the whole province should 

 not be neglected. 



A Micmac Indian, known as "Dr. Lone Cloud" or Jerry 

 Bartlett, informs me that about 1874 a very old Indian woman, 

 Magdalene Pennall of Sissiboo (Weymouth), Digby county, 

 informed him that there had then been long known to her 

 people certain very large rib-bones, which they supposed to 

 be "whale ribs," on the barrens about two or three miles south- 

 eastward of Blue Mountain lake, about twenty-five miles from 

 the sea, in the northeastern part of Yarmouth county, IS". S. 

 The place is a very short distance east of Bloody creek or 

 brook (a tributary of the Clyde river) and on a trail from that 

 creek via Long lake, to the head-waters of the Shelburne or 

 Roseway river to the eastward. On one occasion, Mrs. Pennall 

 and her husband, Joe (Kophang), just after having left their 

 canoe on Bloody creek, killed a moose at the spot where the 

 bones were, and as a thunder shower came on they stood three 

 of the large ribs against a rock, covered them with the moose- 

 hide, and so formed a shelter. Some of the ribs which were 

 on the ground were covered with a thick mantle of moss. Lone 

 Cloud thinks there may have been some vertebra there also, 

 but knew of no other kinds of bones. Once some Indians 

 carried away one of these big ribs, but as it was very heavy it 

 was at last dropped, and the superstitious Indians affirmed 

 that it was afterwards found once more in its original place, 

 which caused the remains to be regarded with some veneration 

 by members of the tribe. 



The same Indian was also informed by John Jadis, a vener- 

 able and well-known Indian still living at Enfield, that very 

 many years ago there were found at the Home settlement at 

 the outlet of Grand lake, Hants county, twenty-six miles from 

 the sea and in the very heart of the province, some large 

 vertebrae which were thought by the old inhabitants of the 



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