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of Granbj, Mass. The lot was a superior one both in the 

 design and execution, having in it some of those hollow cylin- 

 ders and perforated double-edged " tomahawks," as they are 

 sometimes called, which are so rarely found in the ISorth. 

 Evidences of the intercourse of the Indians with the whites 

 are occasionally found, in the cannon balls and cooking uten- 

 sils of iron, which are sometimes met with in close proximity 

 with stone arrow-points and fragments of coarse pottery. 



We have found several large fragments of coarse pottery — a 

 variety of relic, from its perishable nature, exceedingly rare — 

 on a low sand bar, located at a bend of the Connecticut river, 

 on the road to Plockanum, This bar is bare at low water in 

 summer, when it can be reached without much difficulty. The 

 fragments found there, are probably washed from the Indian 

 graves that are occasionally exposed by the encroachments of 

 the river on its banks. 



In the sand dunes, mentioned above, are occasionally found 

 the skeletons of the aborigines. Some of these are complete 

 even to the smallest bones of the extremities, and, but for 

 their discoloration, might be wired as models. The condition 

 of the teeth in the jaw, of an adult, found in one of these 

 dunes, proves, assuming it to be that of an Indian, that the 

 teeth of the aborigines were not always sounder than those of 

 their white successors. 



Excursions into the hilly towns in the vicinity of the river, 

 generally yield but poor returns to the antiquarian ; however 

 diligent and faithful he may be in his researches ; he is soon 

 satisfied that he has left the favorite haunts of the red man 

 behind him ; and he will be very likely to have a feeling of 

 loneliness steal over him and desire to return to a region more 

 prolific in relics ; as a man fond of society hurries from soli- 

 tude to join the company of many friends. 



Passing from the Connecticut Valley to the seaboard, we 

 there find that the favorite localities with the Indians, were 

 those hills and the protection of such cliffs as were close 

 adjoining to muscle beds and clam banks. In the township of 

 Marblehead, commencing at the extreme western portion of 

 the township, in the vicinity of the Forest River Mills, we find 

 several huge deposits of shells close under a range of hills 

 bordering the sea. That these deposits were made by the 

 Indians is amply proved by the relics found scattered among 

 them, (including the bones of wild* animals long since extinct 



* One of the lower molar teeth of an animal of the deer kind, and 

 as large as the moose, was found in a deposit near by, a few years 

 ago. J. L. R. of the Publishing Committee, 



