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margin the boring was driven from the reverse side to within a short 
distance of penetration before a boring was started from the other 
side. In the case of the other hole, the borings meet about midway. 
The holes shows no signs of wear. The specimen is one-quarter of 
an inch thick, and was found at Ring Island, Maquapit Lake. 
Fig. 3 (plate vii) represents a broken pendant of dark argillaceous 
slate bevelled so as to make three sides on each face. The central 
division has, cut into it, an ornamented design of short diagonal lines. 
The work has been very neatly done, and shows good taste on the 
part of the artist. The reverse side is not ornamented. 
Fig. 4 is another pendant of dark argillaceous slate, and ornamented 
in the same way as fig. 3, but the diagonal lines are very close together. 
The object is bevelled so as to have three faces on each side. The 
ornamented face is one-eighth of an inch wide. Reverse side is not 
ornamented. 
Fig. 5 is part of an ornament of greenish grey slate. It has a very 
characteristic Indian decoration, and, with the two preceding speci- 
mens, was found at Indian Point, on Grand Lake. It is bevelled so 
as to have three faces on each side, the central face being the widest 
This specimen is ornamented on all six sides. 
Bone Harpoons. 
Implements of bone and ivory which have been used by men of 
the Stone Age are not common in America. This is probably due to 
the fact that bone is a more perishable article than stone, and, unless 
protected from the weather, soon decays. In Europe a good many 
implements of this nature have been found in caves, but in America 
comparatively little has been done in that interesting field of 
exploration. 
The implements of bone and ivory that have been found in this 
province have been for the most part recovered from the kitchen- 
middens of the southern coast, and do not exhibit any great variety. 
So far as I know, very few implements of bone have been found in 
the central or eastern parts of the province. 
In 1869 Prof. Spencer F. Baird explored shell heaps in Charlotte 
County, and published,* in 1882, an account of his explorations that 
* Proc. U. S. Nat. Museum, 1882, p, 292. He says, “ The examinations of the shell beds 
in New Brunswick and Eastern Maine were made mostly in the summer of 1869.” 
