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can be read at present by only a single Indian. The only 
other evidence of its use in Acadia that the writer has 
been able to find, occurs in a paper by Professor L. W. 
Bailey, in No. VI. of this Society’s Bulletin, entitled, 
“ On the Belies of the Stone Age in New Brunswick.” He 
mentions that some shell beads were found with the bones of 
a child upon the Tobique Biver. He says , — “ They would 
appear to have been derived from the common fresh water 
Clams (Unio and Anodonta), and, considering the circum- 
stances under which they were found, were probably of true 
Indian and domestic manufacture, rather than imported or 
imitative products, such as were abundantly made for purposes 
of barter, in more thickly settled localities.” 
The Molluscs, from the shells of which white wampum 
was chiefly made, are entirely wanting upon the shores of 
Acadia, though that from which the purple was made, viz.:; 
the species we are now considering, was abundant; yet 
Lescarbot gives us to understand that neither kind was made 
in Acadia. He did not know, however, from what the purple 
wampum was made; he supposed it was from jet or a kind of 
wood. The Quahog must have been extensively used by 
them as food, and it seems strange that they should not have 
learned from the tribes to the south to make it themselves. 
Works of Reference. 
Wampum and its History. Bv Ernest Ingersoll. American 
Naturalist, Vol. XVII., 1883, pp. 467-479. 
Aboriginal Shell-money. By B. E. C. Stearns. Proc. Cal. 
Academy, Vol. V., pp. 113-120. Also American Nat- 
uralist, Vol, III., 1869, pp. 1-5. 
Fishery for Quahogs, Fishery Industries of the U. S. Sec. 
V*, Vol, II., pp, 595-613. 
20 . Cyprina Islandica (Lister) Lamarck. 
Black Quahog. 
[ Cyprina , from Kupris, a name of Venus; Islandica , Icelandic]. 
Distribution, (a) General ; — Shallow water to ninety 
fathoms. Long Island to Arctic Ocean, and around the- 
