252 THE STONE AGE IN NOVA SCOTIA.—PATTERSON. 
255). These are of red or brownish grey color. The clay is seen 
to have been tempered by pounded granite being mixed with it. 
They vary in thickness from three sixteenths to one half of an 
inch. Some show that they belonged to vessels of large size. 
They show that the vessels were generally of the gourd shape, 
though one piece especially shows that the bottom had been pro- 
longed to a blunt point. Portions of the mouth show sometimes 
a lip vertically straight, but in most instances it is curved out- 
wards. Some have ears showing that they were to be suspended 
over the fire. There is considerable ornamentation on the out- 
side on the upper part, but I have not been able to trace any 
design in the marks. They consist sometimes of rows of dots 
made by some sharp pointed instrument, and again of such 
impressions as might have been made by the nail of the fore- 
finger. Sometimes they were made by an instrument about two 
inches long with small teeth, with the points of which an 
impression was made in one row, then the one end was swung 
around, and a second made at an angle with it, then the other 
end was moved in the same way, and thus a zigzag formed. 
Sometimes two lines were drawn up and down meeting at a 
sharp angle at the top suggesting the shape of the wigwam. 
Some show scratches on the inside, the cause of which does not 
appear. 
Of course these are all coarse and do not in any respect com- 
pare with the specimens found in many parts of the West and 
South. 
With these from Nova Scotia are exhibited specimens from 
Hochelaga, the site of the present Montreal (No. 224), a broad 
shallow vessel from the New Hebrides (No. 256), with portions 
of one of gourd shape from the same quarter, though Sir John 
Lubbock informs us that the people of these islands did not 
make any pottery. 
VI.—WOOD. 
No prehistoric objects of this material have been found in 
Nova Scotia, so faras known tome. Our climate would in most 
instances be fatal to the preservation of them. 
