249 THE STONE AGE IN NOVA SCOTIA.—PATTERSON. 
(Mytilus edulis). I confess I did not look for others. My atten- 
tion was recently directed to the subject of smaller shells, by a 
letter from Mr. W. F. Ganong, enquiring if I had ever found the 
English periwinkle in such places. In the few observations I 
have been able to make since, | have not found any other than 
those mentioned. 
From this place have been obtained about half the objects in 
the present collection, besides a number given by me to other col- 
lections and a number taken away by other parties. 
Referring more particularly to the collection as a whole, it will 
be seen to contain nearly 300 objects of Archeological interest. 
Of these over 250 are connected with Nova Scotia, representing 
the stone age of its aboriginal inhabitants. These are so varied 
as to form an almost complete representation of the articles 
found among the remains of the native races of North America, 
thus exhibiting their life at the period referred to, so far as that 
can be done by their implements and other relics. Besides these 
there are a nuraber of articles of a similar character, not only 
from the United States, but from Scotland, the West Indies and 
particularly the New Hebrides Islands, where the stone age con- 
tinued till very recently, and on some of which it has scarcely 
yet passed away. 
They have been arranged according to the classification adopted 
in the account of the Archeological Collection of the Smithsonian 
Institution, prepared at the time of the Centennial Exhibition. 
In noticing the articles more particularly I shall follow the order 
there observed, as we will thus be enabled to see how far the 
various kinds of implements found elsewhere are represented 
in Nova Scotia, and thus illustrate by euripaneey the condition 
of its inhabitants at that period. 
I.—STONE. 
A.—FLAKED AND CHIPPED STONE. 
1. Raw Material—tThe collection shows, particularly from 
Bauchman’s Beach, Lunenburg County, some of the rocks brought 
from the trap rocks of the Bay of Fundy, in nodules rounded by 
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