NATURAL HISTORY AND PHYSIOGRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK 
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which have been placed in the Museum of this Society.* The 
bones occur at the looality marked on the smaher map accompany- 
ing the preceding Note (page 456), in which also is discussed 
the mode of formation of the remarkable beach-plain on which 
they are found. The place is now over a quarter of a mile from 
the sea, well within the margin of a sparse spruce wood, and 
covered by its mossy carpet. At the place of their greatest 
abundance they are scattered over an area of an acre or so, and 
are manifest to the eye either through the whiteness of an oc- 
casional exposed portion, or else by the mossy hummocks cover- 
ing the skulls and larger bones. As a rule they are scattered or 
isolated, though at times small groups are found together in their 
natural relations, though no skeletons anywhere near complete 
can now be found. Most of the bones are much decayed, though 
the skulls and lower jaws, with femurs and a few others, have 
been fairly preserved through their great hardness. A noticeable 
fact about most of the skulls is that they show the large bullet 
holes into the brains by which obviously the animals were killed, 
while the marks of the axes by which the tusks were hewn out 
of the skulls are visible upon all of them. These signs confirm 
the testimony of both history and tradition which state that this 
was a famous hunting ground for these animals at the first 
settlement of the country. The bones lie partly imbedded in sand, 
a very poor material for their preservation, and so far are they 
decayed that it will be now only a few years before they will all 
have crumbled away ; and then this last visible testimony of the 
former occurrence here of the walrus will have vanished forever. 
For some time to come, however, the visitor will be 'able to make 
a selection from the piles which I left beside the path, having col- 
lected them in the selection of those I brought away for the So- 
ciety, and it is one of these piles which is shown on the accom- 
panying photograph. Although this is the principal locality at 
*These bones include a very large nearly complete skull, another 
cloven skull, two lower jaws, part of a tusk (found at Goose Lake, Miscqu, 
and given me by the light keeper), two femurs, two vertebrae and a rib. 
These were selected as the best among a large number dug up and 
examined. 
