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is slightly indented on the two lateral edges midway in the 

 length (Fig. 92). This was for the purpose of holding the lashing 

 which bound the haft adzewise. It agrees in size and shape with 

 a syenite implement in the Provincial Museum, a description of 

 which will be found in a previous paper.* The adze-like form 

 is more or less noticeable in the specimens in the McCulloch 

 collection. It is difficult to decide to which type the two frag- 

 ments belong. The collection also contains an extremely small 

 and frail "celt" (Fig. 91) the most slightly proportioned one 

 which I have seen. It is not quite 4'25 inches long, an inch in 

 greatest breadth, and '50 of an inch in greatest thickness.^ Its 

 form is very symmetrical. Possibly it was intended for the use 

 of a child, or else for some finer work than that for which the 

 larger tools were adapted. In the Fairbanks collection, the 

 shortest complete specimen, which is distinctly of the second 

 type, measures a little more than 5*25 inches in length (Fig. 35). 

 An implement (Fig. 86), eight inches in length, found near 

 Margarie, Cape Breton, has been shown to me by E. C. Fairbanks, 

 Esq., of Halifax. It is evidently an adze, and belongs to the 

 broader form. 



From rny examinations of Dr. Patterson's large collection in 

 the museum of Dalhousie College, J I find that nearly every 

 so-called celt or axe therein, exhibits, more or less distinctly, one 

 side which is intentionally more convex or rounded than the 

 other ; which, with other occasional indications, tends to raise 

 a suspicion that they had been used as adzes. An adze (No. 

 40) in that collection, labelled a " stone axe, Middle River Pt., 

 Pictou Co." (length 9*50 inches, greatest breadth 2*65), still retains 

 the worn places, on the flatter side, made by contact with the 

 adze-handle. Indications of this are also to be found in other 

 instances. No. 53 in the same collection, labelled a " celt or 



* Aboriginal Remains of N. S., Trans. N. S. Inst. Nat. Sc., 1st series, vol. vii, p. 282. 



t In my paper mentioned in the above note, the measurements of three " celts " were 

 misprinted as much shorter than this. The figures in lines 17, 18. and 22, page 280, of 

 that paper, should respectively read 4'90, 4, and 4 '90 inches. 



t A full description of this excellent collection will be found in Dr. Patterson's 

 paper on " The Stone Age of Nova Scotia," Trans. N. S. Inst. Nat. Sc., series I, vol. vii. 



