234 THE STONE AGE IN NOVA SCOTIA.—PATTERSON. 
belonged had the practice, common among so many primitive 
races both in the old and new world, of burying with the dead 
the implements which thev were accustomed to use when in life. 
But I found one exception to this, which otherwise was curious. 
In this case instead of the mould referred to there was a layer 
almost entirely of ashes, with fragments of bone seemingly burnt, 
and none of them an inch long. ‘This covered a smaller space 
than in the other cases, being of an elleptical shape, and speaking 
from recollection, scarcely two feet in the longest diameter, and 
a little over half as much in the shorter. In this there was nothing 
in the shape of a prehistoric implement except a fragment of a 
broken stone spear-head. In explanation of these circumstances 
I could only suppose that we had here the remains of some poor 
captive who had been burned. 
In connection with this I observed in my digging indications 
of fire for some unexplained purpose, ashes, small pieces of char- 
coal and burnt earth. Possibly this might have been caused 
by white men burning the wood in clearing the land, but I 
observed also stones, which seemed to have been subjected to 
fire for some time, as the stones in a chimney or a hearth. I 
regret that I did not carefully examine into this point. I may 
observe, however, that I picked upon the ground a number of 
stone flakes such as are formed in the making of arrow-heads, 
and such as I have always found on the sites of old encampments. 
This would indicate that the piace had been occupied after the 
interments, and perhaps by another race. This would account 
for some of the stones having the appearance of being acted on 
by fire, perhaps from their having been used as hearth stones. 
The stone implements found in this cemetery present no par- 
ticular difference from those found elsewhere. The arrow and 
spear-heads are generaily well made. Some of them are of jasper 
or other fine grained mineral, such as are found in the trap rocks 
of the Bay of Fundy, and they exhibit a varietv of forms exactly 
resembling those found in other collections both in the old and 
in the new world. There are also what I regard as knives 
intended to be grasped in the hand and drawn to the person as 
is done by the Mic-macs to the present day. ‘There is one curious 
