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 Ipswich River, there are extensive shell heaps 

 several feet thick, attesting the prolonged or 

 numerous visits by bands of Indians to this 

 region. Here many of the shells are those of 

 the oyster, a mollusk long since extinct in this 

 region. 



One can picture the summer camp, the skin- 

 covered wigwams, the bark canoes drawn up on 

 the sandy beach of the estuary, the feasts of 

 fish, clams and oysters and other products of the 

 sea, of roasted ears of Indian corn, of sea-bird's 

 eggs and of the flesh of birds and seals and other 

 animals caught in snares and traps, or slain by 

 stealth with stone-tipped spears and arrows. It 

 is probable that many of the Indians in winter 

 moved back into the more densely forested in- 

 terior, partly for shelter from the gales which 

 sweep the sand dunes and marshes of the coast 

 and partly for the better hunting and trapping. 

 This is the custom today of the Mountaineer 

 Indians of Labrador. 



It is evident that the Indians loved this region 

 of dune and marsh, sea and estuary and made 

 full use of the bounteous repast spread with in 



