Whoever has gone into one of our Antiquarian Museums and glanced with some curiosity and perhaps with growing interest at the withered fragments of canoes preserved from total decay by the peat out of which they were dug --at the stone heads of weapons whose handles have rotted long ago --at the flint knives and arrow-heads at the sun-dried pottery --at the gaudy beads of amber or of colorued glass --at the combs and ornaments curiously carved out of bone --and alt all such other relics of a rem