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pilot says he will have a look at Grand Manan as he 

 knows of a heap on the point near Head Harbor light 

 about ten miles east of Eastport where you can easily go 

 from Eastport any pleasant day." Prof. Bailey of St. 

 John and Prof. T. Sterry Hunt of Montreal visited Mr. 

 Boardman in August, 1869 and as President Harris of 

 Bowdoin College was then at Mr. Boardman 's, Dr. Todd 

 took them out to see the Oak Bay shell heap, as they 

 had never seen one and Mr. Boardman could not go. 

 Prof. Baird was also going to Grand Manan to visit the 

 heaps at Lepreaux, Mr. Boardman writing: " I am so 

 far away I cannot always get down in season for good 

 weather so you had better not depend upon me as Cheney 

 will show you all the places." Again he writes : " The 

 day Dr. Todd was down to the heaps with President 

 Harris they found a large rib bone of some animal very 

 much larger than the largest ox or moose. I will bring 

 it down Monday and perhaps you can tell what creature 

 formerly used it. Dr. Todd thinks the bay shell heap 

 would pay to dig all up — we will see about that, how- 

 ever, when we cannot find any new ones to dig that are 

 more interesting." Finally, regarding these shell heaps 

 Mr. Boardman writes : 



I went to St. Andrews last week by land. I called to see 

 Mrs. Simpson. Mr. Taylor was with me and we went down to 

 see the old shell heap as I had heard nothing from it since the 

 great October tide and gale. It was badly washed away. I think 

 nearly ten feet must have been carried away since the first time 

 we saw it. It is all away now up to a little above the fence. 

 There was so much drift stuff all about that Mr. Simpson could 

 find nothing of any account. He did, however, find one bone 

 with a hole in the middle, sharp at each end and about five inches 

 long, probably used for a needle, and also one or two stones not 



