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remarkable one yet found in the Maritime Provinces. The 
circumstances of its discovery are as follows. In 1870, an 
upturned copper kettle was unearthed by Mr. John J. Withrow* 
in a piece of woodland to the westward of Upper Rawdon and 
within ten rods of the line of an old French trail or road from 
Shubenacadie to Newport, Hants County. The kettle was about 
eighteen inches or two feet under the surface. Beneath it, when 
lifted, were found the stone pipe just mentioned, two iron 
tomahawks, five or six iron implements about eight or nine 
inches long, very much rusted, and having a slight prominence 
near the middle of their Jength, also about seven dozen oval blue 
beads ornamented with lines, ete., each bead nearly the size of 
a sparrow’s egg, and lastly a tooth which seems to have been 
the curved incisor of a beaver. There were no human bones or 
other indications of a burial. The five or six iron implements 
Mr. Withrow thinks were knives, but they were so corroded as 
to make identification very difficult or impossible. The kettle 
was fifteen inches or so in diameter and about nine inches in 
depth, and it had a handle for suspension. Close to where the 
kettle was found, was a hemlock, two feet in diameter. With 
the exception of a few of the beads, which Mr. Withrow retained, 
the relics subsequently belonged to J. W. Ouseley, Esq., barrister 
of Windsor. Half of the beads were given by this gentleman to 
the late Judge Wilkins, the remainder are still in his possession. 
Dr. Almon obtained the pipe from Mr. Onseley. 
The bowl and stem of this splendid example of aboriginal 
skill, are formed of one piece, thus somewhat resembling a 
clumsy modern clay pipe. The intervening portion forms a 
curve. The most noticeable feature of the article is a bold repre- 
sentation of what is undoubtedly a lizard, placed with its 
ventral surface on that side of the bowl which is farthest from 
the smoker. The fore and hind legs clasp the bowl, while the 
long tail lies upon the lower surface of the stem. The broad 
head extends upward beyond the rim of the bowl. Two dots at 
the extremity of the somewhat pointed snout, represent the 
* Now of South Uniacke Mines, Hants County, N. 8S. 
