DISCOVERIES AT A VILLAGE OE' THE STONE AGE. 
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Stone Age may be obtained. In that part of the higher por- 
tion of the main village site which still remains undisturbed 
by the plow, there are depressions marking the position of 
about thirty hut-bottoms. Allowing four individuals to each 
hut, there would be in this part of the village a population of 
about 120. But behind this part of the village, which has 
been ploughed over, there is an area of about equal extent 
covered by shells ; and an additional tract of about the same 
size, more or less covered by kitchen-middens, lies to the east 
of the higher part of the village site. At times, on the basis 
above given, a population of 300 may therefore have lived 
at the main village at Bocabec. But it is probable that half 
this number would be nearer the ordinary population of the 
place. 
It appears to have been the practice of the women who 
dwelt in hut A, to stow away their needles, pins, and other 
articles of use or adornment at the back of the hut, and here 
they would occasionally slip down and be lost between the 
couch and the poles and stones of the outer wall. Several of 
the bone implements taken from this hut bottom were found 
in such places. 
MANUFACTURE OF POTTERY. 
One of the occupations of the women living at Bocabec 
was the manufacture of pottery. On the western side of hut 
bottom A was a pottery-yard, or place of deposit, where the 
occupants of this hut kept a supply of clay for the manufac- 
ture of pots and earthen vessels. These people had ready to 
their hand, in the flat of land which they had chosen as a site 
for their village, a good tough clay, well suited for making 
pottery, when mixed with a due proportion of sand. Never- 
theless, they do not appear in any case to have used it, but 
took the mud of the sea-shore, near low-tide mark, for the 
manufacture of their ware. Such I infer to have been the 
case, for in the course of our excavations we came across 
patches of pottery clay in various spots, and at several levels 
in the hut bottoms A, B, and C, and kitchen-middens adjoin- 
ing them, and in all cases the material thus used was beach, 
mud, mingled with numerous shells of mussel and clam. In 
