40 RELICS OF THE STONE AGE IN NOVA SCOTIA—PIERS. 
nearly 11 inches long by 3:25 in greatest breadth, and weighs 57 
ounces. Another specimen (4°50 x 2:25 x ‘75 ins.) is formed of a 
greenish-tinted stone, fine in texture, and capable of bearing an 
excellent polish and a fine edge (Fig. 19). It differs in material 
from all other specimens in the collection, but resembles in this 
respect, as well as in shape, a small felsite implement from 
Summerside, P. E. I, which is described in my paper on the 
aboriginal remains in the Provincial Museum. 
To illustrate the second or more elongated form, I shall take 
a fine, well-formed specimen (Fig. 31), the production of which 
must have cost its maker much skilful labour. It was originally 
about 11°75 inches long, but an inch of the end bearing the edge 
has been broken oft. At the broader extremity, it measures 
2 inches in width, from which it tapers gradually and gracefully 
until it measures 1:20 in breadth at the butt. The thickest 
portion—about 4 inches from the cutting edge previous to being 
fractured—measures 1:25, from which it becomes rapidly thin 
in order to form a sharp edge, and very gradually thinner 
toward the opposite end or butt. Its weight is about 26 
ounces. One side of the tool is almost perfectly flat, contrasting 
greatly with the rounded form of the other side. In the 
present specimen and some others which resemble it in this 
respect, the central line of elevation from end to end, on the 
convex side, is very noticeable and adds not a llttle to the beauty 
of the implement; others are more regularly rounded and do 
not exhibit this ridge. A section at right angles to the length 
would be plano-convex in outline. The specimens which most 
nearly resemble this typical one, have the edge very much 
rounded or nearly semicircular, and so produce a deep cut like 
that made by a gouge. 
Some twenty specimens (Figs. 31-50)—eleven of them being 
parts of broken implements—may be described as evidently of 
this form, and a few others resemble it more or less. They are 
without the slightest doubt adzes, and are more plainly adze-like 
in shape than those of the first type. Both forms grade into 
each other. 
