56 RELICS OF THE STONE AGE IN NOVA SCOTIA—PIERS. 
the Lake Baptiste burying-ground, Ontario. Mr. Boyle speaks 
of it as exceedingly rare. It is made of a soft “ white-stone.” 
The animal whose form extends above the bowl and more than 
half-way along the stem, he considers was probably intended to 
represent a lizard. 
Mr. Boyle also figures another pipe (Report Canadian 
Institute, session 1886-7, page 29,) which may be likened to our 
specimen, although the resemblance, owing to the different posi- 
tion of the figure and the absence of a distinct bowl and stem, is 
not nearly so great as in the two instances we have just given. 
It was discovered at Milton, Halton County, Ontario. The 
material of which it is formed is a light-gray stone, very soft 
and porous, containing minute specks, probably micaceous, and 
quite unlike anything in the geological formation of that pro- 
vince. The cavities on the body and long tail, resemble those 
on the neck of the Nova Scotian specimen; they are probably” 
intended to represent spots of colour such as the aboriginal artist 
had seen on the animal he imitated. Several lizards bear clearly- 
defined spots of bright colour upon their bodies. Notwithstand- 
ing the length of the snout, Mr. Boyle thought that the 
resemblance of the head to that of a monkey was very striking. 
Iam rather of the opinion that, like the figures on other pipes 
mentioned, the carving was intended to represent a lizard. 
Dr. Almon possesses another stone pipe (Fig. 98), which, 
although most beautifully ornamented and very symmetrical in 
outline, is nevertheless of secondary interest, for the reason that 
it is doubtless of comparatively modern manufacture. It was. 
purchased from a Miemac on the Dartmouth ferry-steamer. In 
general appearance it closely resembles one found at Dartmouth 
in January, 1870, described by me in a paper on the aboriginal 
remains in the Provincial Museum (page 287), or another from 
River Dennis, Cape Breton, which is figured in the plate 
appended thereto. This form is considered by Dr. Patterson to 
be the typical one adopted by our Indians. The bowl, somewhat 
barrel-shaped, rises from a base, laterally flattened. In the 
