40 RELICS OF THE STONE AGE IN NOVA SCOTIA PIERS. 



nearly 11 inches long by 3 25 in greatest breadth, and weighs 57 

 ounces. Another specimen (4*50 x 2 25 x '75 ins.) is formed of a. 

 greenish-tinted stone, fine in texture, and capable of bearing an 

 excellent polish and a fine edge (Fig. 19). It differs in material 

 from all other specimens in the collection, but resembles in this, 

 respect, as well as in shape, a small felsite implement from 

 Summerside, P. E. I., which is described in my paper on the 

 aboriginal remains in the Provincial Museum. 



To illustrate the second or more elongated form, I shall take 

 a fine, well- formed specimen (Fig. 31), the production of which 

 must have cost its maker much skilful labour. It was originally 

 about 11*75 inches long, but an inch of the end bearing the edge 

 has been broken oft*. At the broader extremity, it measures 

 2 inches in width, from which it tapers gradually and gracefully 

 until it measures 1'20 in breadth at the butt. The thickest 

 portion about 4 inches from the cutting edge previous to being 

 fractured measures T25, from which it becomes rapidly thin 

 in order to form a sharp edge, and very gradually thinner 

 toward the opposite end or butt. Its weight is about 26 

 ounces. One side of the tool is almost perfectly flat, contrasting 

 greatly with the rounded form of the other side. In the 

 present specimen and some others which resemble it in this 

 respect, the central line of elevation from end to end, on the 

 convex side, is very noticeable and adds not a little to the beauty 

 of the implement ; others are more regularly rounded and do 

 not exhibit this ridge. A section at right angles to the length 

 would be plano-convex in outline. The specimens which most 

 nearly resemble this typical one. have the edge very much 

 rounded or nearly semicircular, and so produce a deep cut lik& 

 that made by a gouge. 



Some twenty specimens (Figs. 31-50) eleven of them being 

 parts of broken implements may be described as evidently of 

 this form, and a few others resemble it more or less. They are 

 without the slightest doubt adzes, and are more plainly adze-like 

 in shape than those of the first type. Both forms grade into 

 each other. 



