236 THE STONE AGE IN NOVA SCOTIA.—PATTERSON. 
power. The others show care and skill in the formation of the 
barbs. But a point of special interest is that near the base they 
have each a small hole. To this was attached a string, which 
doubtless had a float attached to the other end. When the 
fish was struck the head became detached from the shaft, and he 
went off with the line. But the float would retard his progress, 
and exhaust him, or perhaps bring him to the surface, while the 
fisherman could by it easily follow him up. This mode of cap- 
turing the denizens of the deep is still practised by the Eskimo 
and other barbarous tribes. There are some other specimens of 
bone, horn or ivory, the use of which Iam unable to determine 
from their being so much decayed or being in fragments. 
The pieces of pottery found here did not exhibit any features 
of special interest. Some of them are blackened as if they had 
been suspended over a fire. 
We must, however, particularly notice the stone pipe mentioned. 
It is of a micaceous clay state, very hard, and yet besides the 
drilling of the bowl, a hole is drilled in the stone not more than 
the three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter for a length of nearly. 
two inches. Along the upper surface at each side a fine groove 
has been cut. I fancy that any of our modern mechanics with 
all their improved implements would be puzzled to do the same 
work. But the most curious circumstance remains to be men- 
tioned. The form of it is not like that of any hitherto found in 
Nova Scotia, nor do I find any figured like it in the account of 
the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, but Sir William 
Dawson directed my attention to a collection of relics made up 
the Ottawa, purchased for McGill College, in which were several 
pipes if not exactly the same in shape, yet plainly of the same 
type. It may be worth noting that in no case did I find any 
thing like wampum, so frequently found in Indian graves. 
Some of these circumstances raise the question whether these 
might not be the relics of a 1ace who occupied the ground before 
the Miemacs. But this is more strongly suggested by another fact. 
Almost the only bones found here that could be recognized are the 
two jaw-bones, one of them plainly that of an old person, as indi- 
cated by the manner in which the teeth are worn down. Both are 
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