38 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
confined to Fairy lake and its rocks. This lake is really a bay of a 
larger lake which is almost exactly on the boundary line between An- 
napolis and Queens counties, one of those forming the chain through 
which the Liverpool river runs, and called Cegemacaga in More’s 
History of Queens County (a), but according to Dr. Silas Rand in his 
Reading Book in the Micmac Language (a), Kejimkoojik, translated 
by him as “swelled parts,” doubtless referring to the expansion of the 
Maitland river at its confluence with the Liverpool river. 
The Fairy rocks, as distinct from others in the lake, are three in 
number, and are situated on the east side of Kejimkoojik lake and 
south of the entrance to Fairy lake. The northernmost of the three 
rocks is immediately at the entrance, the westernmost and central rock 
showing but a small surface at high water and at the highest stage of 
the water being entirely submerged. Three other inscribed rocks are 
about 2 miles south of these, at Piels (a corruption of Pierre’s) point, 
opposite an island called Glodes or Gload island, so named from a well- 
known Micmac family. These rocks are virtually a continuation of the 
same formation with depressions between them. Two other localities in 
the vicinity where the rocks are engraved, as hereafter described, are 
at Fort Medway river and Georges lake. As they are all of the same 
character, on the same material, and were obviously made by the same 
people, they are all classed together, when referred to in this paper, as 
at Kejimkoojik lake. All of these rocks are of schistose slate of the 
Silurian formation, and they lie with so gentle a dip that their magni- 
tudes vary greatly with a slight change in the height of the water. On 
August 27, 1887, when, according to the reports of the nearest residents, 
the water was one foot above the average summer level, the unsub- 
merged portion of the central rock then surrounded by water was an 
irregular oval, the dimensions of which were 47 by 60 feet. The high- 
est points of the Fairy rocks at that date were no more than three and 
few were more than two feet above the surface of the water. The in- 
clination near the surface is so small that a falling of the water of one 
foot would double the extent of that part of the surface which, by its 
smoothness and softness, is adapted to engraving. ‘The inclination at 
Piels point is steeper, but still allows a great variation of exposed 
surface in the manner mentioned. 
Mr. Creed first visited the Fairy rocks in July, 1881. His attention 
was directed exclusively to the northernmost rock, which was then more 
exposed than it was in September, 1887, and much of the inscribed 
portion seen by him in 1881 was under water in 1887. The submerged 
parts of the rocks adjoining those exposed are covered with incisions. 
Many inscriptions were seen in 1881 by Mr. Creed through the water, 
and others became visible through a water glass in 1887. His recollec- 
tion of the inscribed dates seen in 1881 is that some with French names 
attached were of years near 1700, and that the worn appearance of the 
figures and names corresponded with the lapse of time indicated by 
