44 FOSSIL MEN. 



The mountain remains as of old, but a new city of 

 a strange people has grown up, and but for Carrier's 

 narrative, those who dig up the curiously ornamented 

 earthen vessels, the stone implements, and the bones 

 of the old Hochelagans, might suppose that they were 

 dealing with the relics of a people who may have 

 perished thousands of years ago. The historical facts 

 of the existence of the town in 1535, and of its 

 destruction before the settlement of Montreal, while 

 they take away the romance which might otherwise 

 connect itself with the remains, give to them, as we 

 shall find, a double value as interpreters of the pre- 

 historic antiquities of old America and Europe. 



