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roasted." In one letter written in July, Mr. Boardman 

 says : "I see by the papers you have been having very 

 warm weather and last Sunday read of a severe thunder 

 shower at Gloucester. Georgie is like Lucy, very much 

 afraid of thunder and she was having lots of sympathy 

 for Lucy." 



During the years of 1868 to 1872 Prof. Baird had been 

 greatly interested in examining the shell heaps along the 

 Eastern Maine coast for Indian relics. At first Mr. 

 Boardman used to write him they were "a humbug," 

 while on one occasion when Prof. Baird was planning to 

 go up from Eastport and spend some time in digging, he 

 said : "I don't believe the few old bones you will get 

 are worth the trouble. I think we had better go shoot- 

 ing and get something good to eat." Later, however, in 

 his desire to aid Prof. Baird's researches, he gave much 

 attention to these shell heaps, saying, in one letter, very 

 frankly, " Since last summer they have more interest to 

 me." 



One day Dan, one of Mr. Boardman's workmen 

 came from up river bringing one gouge, one chisel, two 

 sinkers, a whetstone, a few other stones and some bones. 

 He was gone four days, " which comes to $10.00," writes 

 Mr. Boardman, " but I do not know the value of such 

 things in money." Then he writes that he has found 

 ' ' some queer stone things in a mound over at St. 

 George." Again that he has " found out by one of our 

 pilots of a very big shell heap about three miles below 

 the one we dug into at Simpson's last year and five times 

 as large. I thought of going down but then concluded 

 you had better come up (Prof. Baird was at Eastport) 

 and make the new and great discoveries yourself. The 



