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middle and upper St. Lawrence valley, chiefly in sites that are recognized 
as pre-Iroquoian ; the Iroquoian tribes found there by the first Europeans 
being probably immigrants from farther south. The Malecites have a 
tradition that they migrated eastward pressed by the Iroquois 1 . 
The material culture of the sites on Merigomish harbour belongs 
to the northern area of archaic pottery rather than to the southern area 
of more highly developed ware; to the middle and north Atlantic slope 
pottery area, as distinct from the Iroquois pottery area; to the Algonkian 
linguistic area, as distinct from the Iroquoian or Eskimoan linguistic 
areas; to the region of Gaspe, the Maritime Provinces, and Maine, as 
distinct from the adjacent part of New England to the south or the Eskimo 
area to the north; to the prehistoric Micmac Indians, as distinct from the 
Abnaki and the more distant southern New England tribes, the Eskimo, 
or the Iroquois. It has analogies to pre-Iroquoian sites of the middle 
and upper St. Lawrence. 
1 Cf . Dawson, p. 44. 
