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gut, to the east. It is perhaps 30 feet long by 30 wide. Patterson (a, page 
241) estimated it to cover three-fourths of an acre. Mr. Millar states that 
the height was not more than 18 inches, and it is now much less because 
some of it has been used as fertilizer. Patterson (a, page 241) states that 
oyster, quahog, shoft-shelled clam, and mussel shells were found in it. 
He secured most of the specimens found on the farm during ploughing and 
fertilizer digging. The majority of the specimens in the Patterson collection 
are from the part of this farm on Kerr point 1 . In 1913 and 1914 Mr. 
Millar presented to the Museum most of his remaining specimens, consisting 
of : a point chipped from chert with stem lacking ; a heavy, thick, leaf- 
shaped object chipped from metargillite — possibly a reject; a harpoon 
point made of bone; two fragments of pottery; and four entire adzes made 
of stone, one of them unfinished. These are catalogued under Nos. VIII- 
B-27, VIII-B-28, and VIII-B-829 to VIII-B-835. Mr. Millar, probably, 
saved only entire specimens, so that broken adzes are likely to have been 
as common here as elsewhere. He had a large vertebra of a small whale. 
In the Patterson collection, catalogued as from this shell-heap, are teeth 
of moose and beaver, pieces of antler and ivory, and thirteen adzes made of 
stone. Catalogued as from the Millar farm, but probably from shell- 
heap O, are: split bones; an ivory tusk; ten chipped blanks; two leaf- 
shaped points chipped from stone; another 7| inches long; two stemmed 
points chipped from stone; thirty points chipped from stone — making a 
total of forty-five chipped points; four points made of bone; two harpoon 
points of bone and a fragment of a third; fragments of pottery; a piece of 
iron pyrites, probably for striking fire; a receptacle made of bone; twenty- 
four adzes made of stone, three of them being broken and one grooved 
on the side edges; four awls made of bone; a needle of bone; three large 
objects, possibly flakers, made of walrus ivory, one of which is illustrated 
on Plate XX, figure 4; an object 8 inches long made of antler or ivory; and 
articles of European origin. 
Shell-heap P (Figure 1), a small heap, perhaps 100 feet long by 10 
feet wide and 8 inches high, undercut and partly washed away by the 
surf, is located on the lowland immediately southwest of Smith point, 3f 
miles northeast of Merigomish. A piece of iron chain, probably intru- 
sive, was found in this shallow heap 2 , and a barbed point of mottled red 
and white chalcedony. 
Find in Barney River. A notched point, chipped from quartz, for 
an arrow, in the Patterson collection, is catalogued as from the bed of 
Barney river. 
Shell-heap East of Barney River. This small and unimportant shell- 
heap, on the east side of Barney river, on a place owned by Mr. McDonald, 
was reported by Mr. Malcolm de Wolfe. 
Shell-heap on the Arhuckle Farm. According to Mr. Donald Simpson 
of Merigomish, a shell-heap exists on the shore 6 miles east of Merigomish, 
on the farm of Mr. George Arbuckle of Central Ponds. 
1 Cf. Patterson (a) , p. 241. 
* Cf. p. 10. 
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