doubt which arose as to whether the interments were made subsequently to the founding of Montreal, is therefore eliminated.  The authorities of the Seminary, who conceded the land, state not only that they have no record of a burying-ground there, but agree with me that the space covered is too large, to be consecrated ground, as it would be in Christian times, and they also state that the burials of the mission of the Mountain where the Montreal Indian converts lived, were made chiefly at the cemeteries of Montreal and were very few.  These Indians had originally been assembled around Ville Marie but were removed to the Fort des Messieurs where Montreal College stands in 1662, and thence, towards the beginning of the 18th century, to Sault-au-Recollet and in 1717 to Oka.  The method of burial, also, is not Christian, but pagan, and similar in every respect to early Mohawk burials.

On Saturday the 10th September, 1898, I went with two laborers granted by the Town of Westmount to the excavation on the club house grounds, and choosing a spot on its edge cut a short trench some two feet deep.  About ten feet southward of the three skeletons previously found, this trench revealed two large stones placed in the form of a reversed V, clearly in order, as it afterwards appeared, to partly cover a body.  On raising these, a skeleton was found of a tall young man laid on the hard-pan, on his right side, with face down, head towards the west, knees drawn up, and covered with the mealy dry whitish earth of the locality, to a depth of about two and a half feet.  Mr. Earl assisted in carefully uncovering the remains, of which Mr. Charles J. Brown then took two excellent protographs in situ.  The form of skull was similar to the others, the teeth fine and perfect except a grinder which had been lost years before.  One armbone showed that it had once been broken and healed again.  No objects were found, though the search was very careful.  On the 17th, the excavations were continued in the hope of finding objects of value to science.  On this occasion there was present, besides the writer Mr. Earl, Mr. C.J.  Brown, Mr. Wheeler and others and Mr. R.W.  McLachlan, one of the excavators of old Hochelaga.  About four or five feet north of the grave last-mentioned, large stones were again struck and on being lifted, the skeleton of a young girl was unearthed whose wisdom teeth had just begun to appear in the jaw.  The large bone of her upper left arm had at one time been broken near the shoulder.  Her slender skeleton was in the same crouching position as the others but much more closely bunched together; the top of the head was laid towards the north and looking partly downwards.  Above her were found several flat stones which may have been used as scoops for the excavation.  Under her neck was discovered the first manufactured object found, a single rude bead of white wampum of the prehistoric form, and which is now deposited in the Chateau de Ramezay.  As white wampum was the gift of a lover, this sole ornament tells the pathetic story of early love and death.  Mr. Chas. J. Brown again protographed the remains in situ.  The work will still proceed and no doubt more important discoveries are yet to be made.