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A CURIOUS RELIC. 
Somewhere in the sixties, before and immediately after the 
town of Hamilton took rank as a city, much laying out of streets, 
excavating and building took place, several very important arch- 
aeological spoils in consequence fell to the cities of Ottawa and 
Toronto. Fortunately all this has not been swallowed up in Proy- 
incial or Dominion museums. Thirty years ago, while men were 
digging a wall on south Wellington street premises, they found a ‘“‘pit,” 
not the usual ‘“ bone pit,” but two sculptured bas relief heads of 
Niagara sandstone, one that of a woman, the other that of a man. 
The former is still to be seen embowered from the vulgar gaze in a 
quaint garden of fruit and flowers on the corner of Main street and 
Ferguson ave. Col. Grant, geologist, pronounces the stone to be 
Niagara sandstone, but does not believe the sculpture to be Iroquois 
but Mexican. Mr. Alison, of Waterdown, thinks the object the 
work of some more ancient people than the Iroquois—the Neutrals 
—as he has in his unique collection found about Medad many 
polished specimens of Niagara stone. It shows that the Neu- 
