Haynes.] 334 [Oct. 20, 



ter of a mile northeast of Wyoming Cemetery. I have brought 

 specimens of the mineral and flakes made of it, together with 

 several implements fashioned out of it, which I have found in dif- 

 ferent places. 



Another substance much employed by the Indians, and found 

 both in the shape of implements and of flakes in similar situations 

 along the north shore, is the so-called "Saugus Jasper." This is 

 not a true jasper, but a compact, non-porphyritic petrosilex, of 

 a light red color. It occurs only in a small outcropping on the 

 south side of the Saugus River, a short distance to the northeast 

 of the railroad station at Saugus Centre. For many rods around 

 the ground is filled with fragments, and there can be no reasona- 

 ble doubt that the quarry was worked for a very long period. This 

 locality is about two miles distant in a northeasterly direction from 

 the place where the green felsite occurs. I have specimens of it 

 here for your inspection, as well as implements made of it from 

 various sites. 



The most common material, however, used by the Indians of this 

 vicinity for the manufacture of their stone implements, is the por- 

 phyritic felsite, which occurs abundantly in Lynn, Saugus and 

 Wakefield. It is of a dark brown or chocolate color, speckled with 

 grains of white quartz. I have here implements made of it, se- 

 lected out of a much larger number, which I have found in many 

 places quite widely separated from each other. All the implements 

 exhibited here are marked with the names of the localities where they 

 were found. The spot, where the outcroppings of this material 

 seem to have been most worked by the Indians, so far as my in- 

 formation goes, judging from the number of implements that have 

 been found in the immediate vicinity, and the fragments with which 

 the hillsides above are covered, is in the extreme southeasterly cor- 

 ner of Wakefield, in Greenwood. This is the same locality where 

 Mr. David Dodge discovered those "rude implements of a palaeo- 

 lithic form," which were exhibited at the meeting of this society 

 on Jan. 5, 1881. 1 



Upon a former occasion I referred to investigations made b}^ me 

 in certain Indian shell-heaps on the shores of Frenchman's Bay, 

 in the island of Mt. Desert, Maine. 2 The stone implements found 



i See Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. xxi, p. 123. cf. Fifteenth Rept. Peabody Mu- 

 seum, p. 57. 



2 See Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. xxn, p. 60. 



