Discoveries at a Village of the Stone Age. 1 7 
the surface of the ware. Some of them are quite ornamental. A 
favorite style of ornamentation consisted in continuous parallel 
lines made with pointed tools ; but a more elegant pattern was a 
chevron, consisting of rows of short diagonal lines impressed in 
this manner. We did not meet with any of the tools by means 
of which these patterns were impressed upon the pottery. A 
small implement with a square point seems to have been in com- 
mon use, and another is indicated with several teeth by which 
certain rows of scolloped indentations were made. The lips of 
several of the vessels were ornamented with diagonal rows of 
indentations apparently made by an implement having three teeth. 
Some of the patterns indicate a different process of manufac- 
ture 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 appearanae 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 osnaburgh used by bakers to cover their dough. Frag- 
ments 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 the leaf of the fir tree ( Abies 
Americana) that had been incorporated 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 strand- 
ed 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 thinking 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. 
