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the Grand Lake, in Queens County. There can be no doubt 
that this point was a favourite camping ground for the early 
races, as it continued to be for some time after the first 
settlement of the country by Europeans. Indeed it would be- 
difficult to find a position more admirably adapted to meet 
the wants of a primitive people. Situated near the western 
extremity of the largest sheet of water in the Province, and 
at a point where this is connected by short thoroughfares 
with chains of smaller lakes (Maquapit and French Lakes),, 
as well as with the St. John River through the Jemseg, it was 
at once a central position from which easy access might bo 
had to a very large area, comprising all the central part of the 
Province, with rivers abounding even now in fish and game,, 
and one easily capable of defence — the low, swampy character 
of the land separating it from the St. John River making 
difficult any hostile approach from that quarter. It is 
accordingly one of the few localities containing direct 
evidences of permanent occupancy, and from it many of the 
most interesting of the articles, to be hereinafter described, 
have been obtained. 
Of the streams of the interior flowing to the so-called North 
Shore of the Province, we have at present but little informa- 
tion as to the occurrence upon them of pre-historic relics. 
The only locality known to us is upon the Miramichi River at 
the mouth of one of its principal tributaries, the Clearwater, 
of which particulars will be hereafter given. 
In most instances the articles above referred to, being 
implements of warfare or of the chase, have been found 
simply scattered loose over the surface of the ground or some- 
times turned out by the plough — their position being largely a 
matter of chance. This position has also, undoubtedly, in 
some cases, been changed from the original one by the agency 
either of water or ice. Where, however, they are abundant 
in limited areas, and especially where they are accompanied 
by heaps of fragments, by implements in various stages of 
manufacture, or by the blocks from which they were evidently 
derived, there can be little doubt that such localities were at 
least temporarily occupied. When, further, the articles found 
