BULLETIN 
OF THE 
NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 
OF 
NEW BRUNSWICK. 
ARTICLE I. 
ON THE RELICS OF THE STONE AGE IN NEW 
BRUNSWICK. 
BY L. W. BAILEY, M. A. 
In the following article, and in another to be subsequently 
prepared by Mr. G. F. Matthew, it is the wish of the authors 
to bring together and to publish, for general information, such 
facts as are known with regard to the distribution, mode of 
life, and characteristics of the early or pre-historic races once 
occupying what is now the Province of New Brunswick. 
It is hardly to be wondered at that a country possessing so 
many features likely to prove attractive to savage instincts — 
a river exceeded in length and volume by but one on the entire 
Atlantic coast, tributary streams and lakes most remarkable 
for their size and number, and giving ready access to vast 
areas abounding in every description of game, and, finally, a 
coast line not only of great length but of the most diversified 
character, and rich in the treasures of the sea, — should afford 
evidence of an aboriginal occupation long prior to the advent 
of Europeans to our shores. Yet, though implements of stone, 
chiefly in the form of arrow-heads, are not uncommon in many 
parts of the Province, and have been somewhat vaguely recog- 
.nizod as of “Indian” origin, no attempt has been made, up 
