Discoveries at a Village of the Stone A ge. 2 1 
numerous, and none were met with that possessed the artistic 
finish of the agate scrapers found on the shores and tributaries of 
the St. John River. 
Though thus lacking in elegance, the scrapers found at Phil’s 
Beach, Bocabec, present a variety of forms, and were no doubt 
intended for various uses. Beside the ordinary scraper, which in 
form may be compared to a gun-flint with rounded corners, and 
which was used for dressing skins, there were several kinds that 
were probably used as carpenters’ tools. Some of these had chisel- 
shaped extremities, and, secured in a bone or horn handle, would 
have made very serviceable little chisels. Other gouge-pointed 
forms would have been useful implements for scraping the insides 
of hollow bones, such as are found shaped into needles, bodkins, 
etc. In others the outline of the scraping edge was concave ; these 
would have been suitable for scraping the wooden shafts of 
arrows or any other rounded surface of wood or bone. It was in 
hut bottom C that the greatest variety of these implements was 
found. 
Quartz, being a harder stone than petrosilex or felsite, was the 
favorite material for scraping tools ; but many of the scrapers 
made of this rock were merely rough flakes, to which a fresh edge 
was given by flaking minute chips from the margin, and the tool 
thus restored was used again. This habit of the men of Bocabec 
reminds us of the manner in which window glass is now used by 
cabinet makers for similar purposes, a fresh edge being obtained 
by breaking the glass, when the old one has become dulled by use. 
As hut bottom A was characterized by the variety and perfection 
of its stone weapons, so hut botton C, by the presence of numerous 
scrapers, gave evidence of the operations of the artificer in wood. 
By far the greatest number of scrapers were made of quartz ; 
but beside those made of petrosilex (and these were numerous), 
there were a few of agate, jasper and chalcedony. 
No veins of agate or chalcedony are known to occur near the 
Bocabec River, but these minerals could have been procured at 
Grand Manan Island, to the south, or on the St. John River, to 
the north. Two scrapers made of these varieties of quartz shew 
a remarkable amount of weathering, as though they had been in 
use for a long time. The source of supply for the material from 
