THE STONE AGE IN NOVA SCOTIA.—PATTERSON, 2a 
Art. VI.—THE STONE AGE IN Nova SCOTIA, AS ILLUSTRATED BY 
A COLLECTION OF RELICS PRESENTED TO DALHOUSIE 
CoLLEGE.—By THE REv. GEORGE PATTERSON, D.D., 
New GLascow. 
During the last few years I have embraced any opportunities 
afforded me of collecting relics of the Stone Age in Nova Scotia, 
and have now concluded that the purposes of such a collection 
will be best served by presenting it to Dalhousie College, to form 
part of the museum of that institution. In handing it over, I 
desire, through the N. S. Institute of Natural Science, to place on 
record any points of interest noted in my explorations, er sug- 
gested by the articles discovered. 
In older countries, these relics have been obtained principally 
from four sources :— 
1. Buria! mounds and old cemeteries. 
2. Kitchen Middens, or the shell heaps and refuse heaps 
which mark the site of old encampments. 
3. Cave dwellings. 
4, .Lake dwellings, as in Switzerland. 
Nothing of the nature of the last two has ever been found in 
Nova Scotia, and there is no probability that there ever will. It 
is therefore to the first two of these that we are indebted for any 
remains %f this primitive state of society found among us. As 
to the first, I have only in one instance come across a genuine 
prehistoric cemetery. It was situated on the Big Island of 
Merigomish, on the farms of Donald McGregor and James 
McGlashan, near the shore and close by the line between their 
farms. Attention was first directed to the place by Mr. McGre- 
gor, while ploughing up a portion of his field in which the 
vegetation was ranker than usual, turning up a human skull, 
pierced in front by a stone arrow-head, which still remained in 
its place. This interesting relic unfortunately was not taken 
care of, and has been lost. I did not hear of this discovery till 
