SPECK— SITE ON THE ST LAWRENCE 



view has been expressed by the conservative writers already referred 

 to, particularly by Dr Dixon 1 and Mr Willoughby. 2 



Related vestiges may be expected to crop out in various inter- 

 mediate localities between southern Labrador and some point to the 

 southward on the Atlantic coast toward where the southern terminus 

 of the culture may have been. This area may even include the region 

 in Burlington county, New Jersey, recently examined and reported 

 on by Dr Hawkes and Mr Linton. 3 



Despite the gaps in our knowledge concerning the archeology of 

 the East, one has a feeling of satisfaction in knowing that a problem 

 of considerable importance in the solution of Algonquian migrations 

 is now receiving attention and that future exploration will yield 

 more definite results where somewhat promising beginnings have 

 already been made. 



University of Pennsylvania 

 Philadelphia 



1 The Early Migrations of the Indians of New England and the Maritime Provinces, op. cit., 

 pp. 13-14: "One thing seems plain at least, and that is that however they [the Abnaki] reached 

 the region in which they were found at the time of the Discovery, they were not the first occupants 

 of the territory about Penobscot Bay. Although the shell-heaps of this district are evidently 

 old, and indicate a long occupation by their builders whom we may confidently associate with the 

 Abnaki, yet the remains of the so-called Red-paint People . . . certainly antedate these shell-heaps, 

 and would seem to point to a pre-Abnaki people. Who these were is still a matter of conjecture. 

 There is much to favor the belief that they were affiliated with the Beothuc." 



2 Prehistoric Burial Places in Maine, op. cit., p. 50: "The great age of the sixty or more graves 

 described in the foregoing pages is evident. The complete decay and disappearance of the skele- 

 tons, . . . the disintegration of the firestones of pyrites, and the decomposition which many of the 

 implements had undergone when buried many inches beneath the surface, prove the burials to be 

 among the oldest yet discovered upon the continent. 



"If the generally accepted theory of the comparatively recent eastward migration of the Algon- 

 quian tribes which inhabited New England at the advent of Europeans be correct, the burials in 

 these old cemeteries cannot be attributed to that people." Mr Willoughby states in another 

 paper (The Adze and the Ungrooved Axe of the New England Indians, op. cit., p. 303) : "Evidence 

 is accumulating which seems to indicate that the above burials may be pre-Algonquian. A series 

 of implements collected for the Peabody Museum during the last summer by Mr Owen Bryant at 

 Notre Dame bay, Newfoundland, the heart of the historic Beothuk region, strengthens this theory." 



3 Paper entitled "Excavation of a Pre-Lenape Site in New Jersey," read at the International 

 Congress of Americanists, Washington, December 1915. 



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