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N the autumn of 1863, or winter of 1864, a remarkable sculptured stone, representing the human face and head in profile, was discovered in the neighborhood of St. George, a village in Charlotte County, in the Province of New Brunswick, Canada. This curiosity was found by a man who was searching for stone for building purposes, and was about one hundred feet from the shore of Lake Utopia, under a bluff of the same formation as the material on which the head is sculptured, which abounds in the neighborhood. This bluff is situated three miles or more from St. George, and Lake Utopia empties into the Magaguadavic River, or as it may be translated from Indian into English, the River of Hills, which flows towards and pours through the village in the form of a beautiful waterfall. The stone, irrespective of the cutting, which is in relief, has a flat surface, and is of the uniform thickness of two inches. Its form is rounded elliptical, and it measures twenty-one and a half inches longitudinally, and eighteen and a quarter inches across the shorter diameter. The stone is granulite, being distinguished from granite proper by the absence of mica. The sculpture shortly after it was discovered attracted a great deal of attention, and was examined by a number of persons possessing respectable scientific attainments. As far as I am aware, however, neither its visible characteristics, nor its history, or its historical associations have ever been carefully studied by any conversant with American archaeology. For myself, while undertaking to comment upon this interesting memento of a past age, I must at the outset acknowledge my want of qualifications for the purpose, and explain that

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