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remarkable one yefc found in the Maritime Provinces. The 

 circumstances of its discovery are as follows. In 1870, an 

 upturned copper kettle was unearthed by Mr. John J. Withrow* 

 in a piece of woodland to the westward of Upper Rawdon and 

 within ten rods of the line of an old French trail or road from 

 Shubenacadie to Newport, Hants County. The kettle was about 

 eighteen inches or two feet under the surface. Beneath it, when 



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lifted, were found the stone pipe just mentioned, two iron 

 tomahawks, five or six iron implements about eight or nine 

 inches long, very much rusted, and having a slight prominence 

 near the middle of their length, also about seven dozen oval blue 

 beads ornamented with lines, etc.. each bead nearly the size of 

 a sparrow's egg, and lastly a tooth which seems to have been 

 the curved incisor of a beaver. There were no human bones or 

 other indications of a burial. The five or six iron implements 

 Mr. Withrow thinks were knives, but they were so corroded as 

 to make identification very difficult or impossible. The kettle 

 was fifteen inches or so in diameter and about nine inches in 

 depth, and it had a handle for suspension. Close to where the 

 kettle was found, was a hemlock, two feet in diameter. With 

 the exception of a few of the beads, which Mr. Withrow retained, 

 the relics subsequently belonged to J. W. Ouseley, Esq., barrister 

 of Windsor. Half of the beads were given by this gentleman to 

 the late Judge Wilkins, the remainder are still in his possession. 

 Dr. Almon obtained the pipe from Mr. Ouseley. 



The bowl and stem 'of this splendid example of aboriginal 

 skill, are formed of one piece , thus somewhat resembling a 

 clumsy modern clay pipe. The intervening portion forms a 

 curve. The most noticeable feature of the article is a bold repre- 

 sentation of what is undoubtedly a lizard, placed with its 

 ventral surface on that side of the bowl which is farthest from 

 the smoker. The fore and hind legs clasp the bowl, while the 

 long tail lies upon the lower surface of the stem. The broad 

 head extends upward beyond the rim of the bowl. Two dots at 

 the extremity of the somewhat pointed snout, represent the 



* Now of South Uniacke Mines, Hants County, N. S. 



