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Bulletin of the Natural History Society . 
ARTICLE II. 
DISCOVERIES AT A VILLAGE OF THE STONE AGE 
AT BOCABEC, N. B. 
By G. F. Matthew, M.A., F. R.S.C. 
{Read 5th February, 1884.) 
\ NUMBER of the members of this Society combined to form 
1 L a Summer Encampment in Charlotte County for the pur- 
pose of studying, during a short vacation, the Botany, Zoology 
and Archaeology of a locality in that County. As the work in 
the last-named branch of study was entrusted to me, it becomes 
my duty this evening to tell you of the result of our investigation 
in the kitchen-middens at the place referred to. 
First, however, I may mention that our party left St. John by 
the Grand Southern Railway on 6th August last, and were joined 
at our destination by other members of the Society from St. 
Stephen and Queens County. 
To the Manager of the Grand Southern Railway we owe our 
thanks for carrying the party at reduced fare, and for transporting 
our outfit free of charge ; and to George F. Hibbard, Esq., and 
Mr. Alexander Boyd for much kindness and attention during our 
stay in St. George and at Bocabec. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE VILLAGE SITE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. 
The spot chosen for investigation was a group of kitchen - 
middens or shell heaps which mark the site of an abandoned 
village of the Stone Age at a place called Phil’s Beach, near the 
mouth of the Bocabec River. The site was well chosen, for the 
advantages of the place to a people who depended for existence on 
hunting and fishing are manifold. A clay flat, flanked on the 
west by a long protecting hill of felsite rock, running parallel to 
» the course of the Bocabec River, and on the east by a similar 
ridge which separates this river from Digdeguash Inlet, was the 
spot chosen for the principal settlement. To the north of this 
clay flat, where there is now an open field, the standing forest 
