(Relics of the Stone Age in (New (Brunswick. 5 
< Group II. — Implements and Ornaments of Shell , Bone and 
Ivory : 
Shell-beads or Wampum. Bone awls or piercers. 
Harpoons. Bone needles. 
Fish-hooks, 
Group III. — Implements of Clay or Earthenware : 
Pottery. Pipes. 
Group IV. — Food refuse: 
Shell-heaps or kitchen-middens. Fish remains. 
Mammalian remains. Invertebrate remains. 
Vegetable remains. 
To these may be added remains of human skeletons, and 
■descriptions of the sites of villages and summer encampments. 
DISTRIBUTION AND MODE OF OCCURRENCE. 
The relics above enumerated differ greatly in their relative 
abundance as well as in their distribution, but are alike in 
having been invariably met with only in the vicinity of 
navigable waters, either those of rivers and lakes or of the 
sea-coast. Of the former, as might be expected, the St. John 
River affords the most frequent examples; stone implements 
of various kinds being not unfrequently met with at many 
points along its banks, at least as far up as Grand Falls. 
Above this point we have been unable to learn of their 
occurrence, although both the main river, in its upper 
portion, and many of its tributaries, such as the Madawaska, 
Fish River, the St. Francis, and the Allegash, are of a 
character which would be likely to invite frequent visitation. 
The occurrence of cataracts, either from the difficulties 
offered by them to navigation or from the more favorable 
fishing to be found at their foot, are especially productive, 
and both the Grand Falls, the Aroostook Falls and the 
Meductic have yielded implements in considerable variety. 
But of all inland localities there is none which can compare, 
both for the number and the diversity of the objects yielded 
by it, with that of Indian Point and the adjacent waters of 
