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Show ThkShki.l Hkaps rx Maink. Prof. W. (i. Ihmnhu', of Maine, writing of tho shell he.v-s at Damariscotta, that I state, eslima'cs that within an area' jut' one hundrtd nxls in length and le-hjily m width there are piled 100,-Uh 100,-Uh 0,000 bushels of" ovster shells. And all this refuse thrown down by .human eaters! One dome-shaped hillock is nearly one hundred feet in height. He thinks the nuiltiude of eaters may not have been great, but that the hillocks te'l of timo rather than number. Within the memory of man the oyster lias not lived in this river. Stone gouge., arrow heads, lone needles, pottery, and eopper knives are theVmly human relies found among the shell. No geological r?nl id' any moment has occurred since the formation of the heaps. |