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The entire specimen is in a very excellent state of preserva- 

 tion, and without a flaw. It is formed of a fine gray stone, 

 different from any found in the province, and closely resembling 

 the material of the remarkable stone tubes in the Provincial 

 Museum (Vide "Aboriginal Remains of Nova Scotia ;" Trans. 

 N. S. I. N. S., vol. vii.) It bears a fine polish. I did not 

 observe any tooth-marks upon the stem, as would probably have 

 been the case had it always been placed in the mouth without 

 some protective material. A short tube of wood may have 

 originally served as a mouth -piece. 



It is a unique specimen in this part of the Dominion. I 

 consider it almost beyond question that it is not the work of 

 Micmacs, but probably came into Nova Scotia as a trophy of 

 war or else by trade with some distant tribe. The stone tubes, 

 just mentioned, probably owe their presence here to the same 

 agency. Trade was not uncommon among the prehistoric tribes, 

 and Lescarbot mentions that our Micmacs, or JSouriquois as he 

 called them, greatly esteemed the matachias, or strings of shell 

 beads, which came unto them from the Armouchiquois country, or 

 the land of the New England Indians, and they bought them 

 " very dear." Tobacco itself must have been obtained by trading 

 with nations by whom it was cultivated. 



Strange to say, in Dr. Rau's account of the collection of the 

 U. S. National Museum (cut 192) is figured a pipe about four 

 and a half inches long, which bears an extremely close resem- 

 blance to the Nova Scotian specimen, both in the attitude of the 

 animal upon it and in general shape. Apparently, however, it 

 is much less boldly carved. It was found in Pennsylvania, and 

 is described by Dr. Rau as a very beautiful, highly polished 

 steatite pipe, carved in imitation of a lizard, the straight neck or 

 stem forming the animal's tail, and its toes being indicated by 

 incised lines. The similarity between the two specimens is 

 therefore remarkably pronounced. 



Mr. David Boyle, in the report of the Canadian Institute 

 (session 1891, page 29). figures a similar pipe found in a grave in 



