20. EARLY HISTORY OF SETTLERS. 
Hebrew language, to which Mr. Babit replied, that it was. Mr. 
Tapscot then asked him if he possessed a knowledge of that lan- 
guage ; he replied that he did to a certain extent. After being 
questioned for sometime, and showing total ignorance in refer- 
ence to the subject, he tried to excuse himself by saying that, 
being on a journey, and not able to refer to his books, he 
was not so well posted as he otherwise should have been. Mr. 
Tapscot then remarked, that however limited a person’s know- 
ledge of alanguage might be, they very rarelyforgot the alphabet, 
and asked him if he could repeat it, or tell him the first letter of 
it ; which he was forced to acknowledge he could not, and 
with confusion and chagrin, he saw the tables turned against him, 
and himself and colleague, exposed as false prophets and hum- 
bugs. They soon left the town. Thus ended disastrously the first 
attempt to establish Mormonism in Bowmanville. 
BURIAL PLACES OF EARLY SETTLERS. 
Of the Burial places of early settlers, many occur along the 
shore of Lake Ontario. One of the first places of interment in 
this Township, was at Port Darlington, a little to the South of 
Peter Hambly’s house. Indians, as well as whites, were there 
buried. Most of the latter were afterwards removed, but while 
Mr. Dillon was engaged some years ago in building, and grading 
the wharf road, human remains, in considerable quantities, were 
brought to the surface. 
A similiar place was known to have existed on the Base Line, 
near the rise of ground west of the quarry. Mr. W. K. Burk re- 
lates an instance of a man, and wife, who were buried on a farm 
near the lake shore, and twice, during his younger days, he fixed 
the palings around their graves. Years ago these had disappear- 
ed, and the precise place of the graves can no longer be traced, 
as the whole field has for many years been under a state of culti- 
vation. 
Those facts show the necessity and propriety of establishing 
public burial places, in the form of Cemeteries, the ground of 
which cannot afterwards be controverted, or applied to other uses. 
INDIAN BURIAL PLACES. 
Of burial places, or repositories for the dead of the aborigines. 
several have, from time to time, been discovered throughout the 
