1882.] 61 [Haynes. 



Hull's Cove, of that upon Bar Island, and of the one upon the 

 shore of the creek immediately opposite. 



These large collections of shells on the shores of Frenchman's 

 Bay were first mentioned by Williamson, who speaks of their 

 great extent, and adduces in proof of their antiquity the circum- 

 stance that the first settlers found a heavy growth of trees upon 

 them, whose stumps are still to be seen. 1 



Dr. Jeffries Wyman has published an account of his investiga- 

 tions in some of them, but in localities different from those which 

 I have studied. 2 He states that implements made of stone were 

 very rare in those examined by him, and that pottery was but 

 poorly represented. My experience has been quite different. 



I have found half a dozen stone axes, one of which was fully 

 nine inches long, and quite a number of other implements of con- 

 siderable size. These axes were all of the " celt " pattern, includ- 

 ing one of the so-called " shoe-shaped " type, and not " tomahawks," 

 furnished with a groove around the middle. There were also as 

 many as a hundred smaller objects, all remarkably well chipped, 

 and mostly made out of a compact green felsite, speckled with 

 quartz. There were at least two dozen large spear-heads, and as 

 many knives ; as many arrow-heads, and an equal number of skin- 

 scrapers. Of the latter class one quite small specimen, made of 

 a red felsite resembling the " Saugus jasper," is interesting as being 

 precisely similar in size and shape, and probably in material, to 

 one which I had found some years previously in the cave at Men- 

 tone, in the south of France, from which came the skeleton of 

 the famous "Fossil Man," now preserved at the Jardin des 

 Plantes " in Paris. 



Fragments of pottery were not at all rare in any of the heaps 

 I examined, and among them was a portion of a bowl of a pipe. 



Dr. Wyman found that implements made of bone were more 

 common, and several of these he has figured in a couple of plates. 

 Of most of these bone implements I also met with similar speci- 

 mens, including two examples of the peculiar little object made 

 out of the lower incisor tooth of a beaver, cut down to a thin 

 edge. 



' History of Maine, Vol. i, p. 80. 2 American Naturalist, Vol. i, p. 561. 



