ABORIGINAL POTTERY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 
Ill 
at Bocabec by Dr. Geo. F. Matthew.* These sherds do not differ 
in composition or ornamentation from the pottery of the St. John 
river valley. The collections made by iS. W. Kain in the lake 
district of the St. John River — an almost complete potf — and 
many other fragments collected at Maquapit Lake by Duncan 
London ; a number of fine fragments collected at Indian Point, 
Grand Lake, by David Balmain ; one thousand one hundred 
fragments obtained at Princess Park, Grand Lake, two years ago 
by A. Gordon Leavitt and William McIntosh; and eight hundred 
fragments collected by the writer at the same place during the 
past summer. 
Princess Park, where most of the above materials were 
obtained, is one of the most beautiful places on Grand Lake; 
a wide crescent-shaped beach about a mile in length forms a sea 
wall, which confines a small lake, locally known as the Keyhole. 
This lake, no doubt, at one time formed part of Grand Lake. 
The sea wall is covered with a growth of Princess PineJ ( Pinus 
banksiana). This small lake is a favourite spawning place for 
many kinds of fish, which find their way into it from Grand Lake 
by a narrow and shallow outlet, where they are easily caught. 
For this reason, the Indians were attracted here, and occupied 
the inner slope of the sea wall as a village site. 
In this place conditions are such that it is impossible to tell, 
with any degree of certainty, how old the pottery may be. The 
sherds are found where the ground is flooded each year and the 
surface changed by the action of water. Therefore, no undis- 
turbed accumulation of pottery and camp refuse is found. 
In this locality over three-fourths of the pottery occurs within 
fourteen inches of the surface. Nothing has been found lower 
than twenty-nine inches. The scarcity of sherds in the lower 
deposits may have been due to the short period in each year in 
which the area would be habitable ; for a lowering of the ground 
*Described in “Discoveries at a village of the stone age at Bocabec, N. B.," by G. F. 
Matthew, M.A., F.R.S.C. See Bull. No. X of the Natural History Soc. of N. B. 
tSee Bull. Nat. Hist. Soc. of N. B„ VOl. V., page 345. 
tLocal name for the Gray or Northern Scrub Pine. 
