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canoes would be sheltered and where there is a clam bed. It is sheltered 
from the east by a hill. The shells found on the surface are chiefly quahog, 
oyster, and mussel; shells of soft-shelled clams are less common. Some 
shells, especially those of the mussel, may have been carried there recently 
by birds. There were also collected from the surface of this heap : a 
piece of a light grey quartzite pebble, chipped along one side and 
broken off at one end — apparently a chipped blade rejected or abandoned 
in process of making; a large piece of chert partly chipped; a celt made 
of stone; another celt used as a hammer until two facets had been formed; 
and a scraper chipped from chert. These are catalogued under Nos. 
VIII-B-455 to VIII-B-468. 
Shell-heap F (Figure 1) is about 40 feet long, 10 feet wide, and 1 foot 
high. It is at the top of a bank, perhaps 12 feet high, cut by the surf on 
the west side of a small, blunt, southerly point south of the Olding barn, 
near the middle of Olding island. This site with its southwesterly 
exposure may formerly have been sheltered by woods to the north and 
east, as well as by the gradually rising land in that direction. 
Shell-heap G is about 20 feet long by 5 feet wide by 1 foot high, and 
is situated on a low bank on the east side of the small, southerly, blunt 
point south of the Olding barn. The surf undercuts the eastern edge of 
this heap. The site, being on low land at the head of a small bay, was 
sheltered from all directions except the water to the east. The heap is 
composed of dark refuse and the shells of the oyster, mussel, soft-shelled 
clam, hen clam, and boat shell. In 1913 W. J. Wintemberg collected 
at this place: teeth of bear, beaver, and woodchuck; at a depth of one foot 
a small, spherical pebble with two sides battered; and on the beach two 
adzes made of stone. These are catalogued under Nos. VIII-B-362 to 
VIII-B-364. 
Adzes made of stone have been found by Mr. Charles Smith on his 
farm on the mainland, about If miles southwest of Merigomish. Two 
of these (VIII-B-26) he presented to the Museum. 
Wigwam Site. A single wigwam site is said to be located at Hardwood 
point, about three-quarters of a mile north of Merigomish. The spot 
is among alders, about 150 feet back from the beach and about the same 
distance west of the east line of the Olding farm. It is probably the 
site of a modern Micmac Indian camp. 
Finds on Big Island. Three adzes made of stone, and a pipe made of 
stone, possibly modern, are in the Patterson collection, catalogued as 
from Big island. The pipe is illustrated in Plate XX, figure 8. 
Shell-heap H (Figure 1) is a small heap on the southwestern side of a 
little swampy bay, on the north side of the mouth of Savage cove, the 
second little bay from the west on the southern side of Big island. 
Micmac Cemetery. There is a consecrated French and Indian cemetery 
on the high land at the south side of Big island, on the north side of Savage 
cove. It is If miles northwest of Merigomish and a quarter of a mile 
east by a little north of heap H. Patterson states (b, page 30) that it was 
used as a cemetery by the Micmac Indians until about 1837 ; but he gives 
