DISCOVERIES AT A VILLAGE OF THE STOHE AGE. 23 
long-whelk ( Buccinum undatum ) are the most numerous of 
the other molluscs found in the refuse heaps of this village. 
After these species may be named the round-whelk ( Lunatia 
heros) and the small purple-shell ( Purpura lapillus.) The 
rock-periwinkle ( Littorina rudis) is occasionally found, and 
so also is the bonnet limpet ( Grepidula fornicata ); but the 
common European periwinkle ( Littorina litorea), now so 
common on this coast, is entirely wanting. Beside these, a 
single valve of the large scallop ( Pecten tenuistriatus) was 
found. 
The sea urchin is present, but may have been introduced 
accidently by crows, and not have been brought intentionally 
from the beach by the former residents of Bocabec. Other 
posthumous or accidental additions to the fauna are the land 
snails, of which several specimens were found at various 
levels in the shell heaps. Among the species found here, 
Helix alternata, Say, is by far the most abundant. Helix 
albolabris, Say, was not very common. Several specimens of 
Helix hortensis, Miill., were observed, but this species has 
probably been introduced since the arrival of the English. 
A species was found which agrees with Binney’s description 
of Helix Sayii , except that the tooth on the parietal partition 
is nearly obsolete. • Among the smaller snails were Helix 
monodon , Rack, Hyalina arborea , Say, Hyalina multidentata, 
Binn. 
Vanity is a foible quite as prevalent in savage as in civi- 
lized communities, and we are not surprised to find indications 
of it among the dwellers at Bocabec. Among the reliquce of 
their hut bottoms was a fragment of a stone pendant decorated 
with crossed lines in the form of a lattice, and two kinds of 
powder, which appear to have been kept in valves of the 
common clam. One of these powders is made from galena 
ore, small veins of which occur on the islands of Digdeguash 
Inlet, near Bocabec. The powder has a glistening appearance 
The other powder, which was formed of pulverized shells of 
the horse mussel, could have been used as a white paint. 
These powders would appear to have been a part of their 
toilet requisites. That such has been the use of the glittering 
