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Province. With the trees went the game, followed soon by the 

 eaters of that game. 



Let us leave that godly old Huguenot, Mark LesCarbot's graphic 

 touches, and examine what remains our stone men have left behind 

 them. They have left no mounds ; they never could have kept men 

 together long enough to build one. They have left many shell 

 mounds in every part of the Province, but near the sea. These 

 collections of oyster and clam shells mixed with bones offish, birds, 

 and mammals, have not yet been studied with the care they deserve. 

 They are the collection of ages, and would well reward a thorough 

 investigation. They have yielded to a very slight search, arrow- 

 heads, stone chisels, and handles of moose horn. 



Again, we turn up graves which may be called of the transition 

 period. Here the warrior rests with stone and iron arrow-heads 

 mingled. The latter were, some with a socket to receive the shaft, 

 others with the tang elongated and pointed to enter it. Again, we 

 find the stone axe and rusting gun side by side. Thus proving 

 how early the French traders accommodated themselves to the 

 needs of traffic. Another grave was opened at Yarmouth whose 

 occupant must have been a great soldier before the Iron age. Full 

 forty stone weapons of beautiful and foreign work, attested his 

 greatness, and in part proved the tradition of a heavy fight by for- 

 eign invaders having there been done. These graves so common 

 about New Jersey are exceedingly rare here. Our usual finds are 

 from the fields and cultivated lands. The plough is continually 

 turning up stone arrow-heads, spear heads, axes, gouges, and chi- 

 sels ; but there are various parts of the Province more fruitful than 

 others. A great many are found at Yarmouth, apparently of stone 

 not found now in the province, and of a different work. Annapo- 

 lis, especially about the tide waters of the LeQuille River, perhaps 

 abounds in them the most, though about Shubenacadie, Musquodo- 

 bit, and Margaret's Bay, there are good finds. 



Of the various stones used — quaitzites, hardened slates, quartz, 

 agate, jasper, amythest, trap, a yellow argillite, granite, sandstone, 

 and soapstone, are found. I have seen only one specimen of sand- 

 stone, a pipe-bowl, found at Lunenburg, and one soapstone another 

 pipe-bowl, found at Blomedon. I have never but in one instance, 



