DISCOVERIES AT A VILLAGE OF THE STOHE AGE. 15 
The lips of several of the vessels were ornamented with dia- 
gonal rows of indentations apparently made by an implement 
having three teeth. 
Some of the patterns indicate a different process of manu- 
facture from the last: these show the print of a coarse woven 
fabric on the outside of the vessel, and sometimes also within. 
On some fragments this pattern has the appearance of a fine 
basket work, and may have been used to preserve the form of 
the vessel, as well as to ornament the surface. On other 
pieces of the terra cotta the pattern very closely resembles 
that left on bread by the coarse osnaburg used by bakers to 
cover their dough. Fragments of another pot were found 
which bore the impression of flattened bunches of grass or 
rushes. 
One pattern of the class first referred to, consisting of 
square, incised dots, is precisely like the marking on some 
fragments of pottery which I met with about fourteen years 
ago at Oak Bay, on the western border of Charlotte County. 
A fragment of pottery found at Bocabec bears the imprint of 
a leaf of the fir tree ( Abies Americana) that had been incor- 
porated with the clay of the vessel before baking. It is not 
probable that this little leaf was in the clay when taken from 
the mud-flat of the Bocabec River, for being light, such a 
leaf would have floated on the water and been stranded near 
high tide mark. We can imagine that it may have fallen 
from a neighboring tree, or have stuck to the clay when it 
was thrown down beside the hut. Here we may fancy the 
crouching potter unconsciously kneading it in as she prepared 
her clay, and gave form and beauty to her work; little think- 
ing that she thus gave permanency to the outlines of a little 
leaf which perished ages ago; or that she was adding another 
line to the history of her people. 
Some of the patterns on the fragments of pottery from 
Bocabec are very like those on the sherds obtained by Hr. L. 
W. Bailey at the thoroughfare of Maquapet Lake; but the 
designs are not so elaborate; yet, there appears to have been 
much in common between the men of the river and those of 
the sea shore, in this art, as well as others. 
