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about four miles from Stroudsburg. Eight hundred feet above and 

 five miles west of the Delaware River, with its nearest drinking water, 

 the creek, one-fourth of a mile down the steep, and eight or nine miles 

 north of the glacial moraine, the damp, chilly hole seemed hardly a 

 good lair for beasts, much less a shelter for men. 



Original discoveries of Air. Paret. — When Mr. Paret had 

 removed the debris which choked its broad arch. Fig. 1, 

 so that a man could scarcely wriggle like a snake 150 feet 

 in, he encountered traces of men and animals in a top layer of 

 limestone roof-splinters and down-slidden outer talus thinning 

 inward into less stony cave earth. All this relic- bearing material 

 lay upon a bed of clay of unprobed depth which appeared to over- 

 spread the whole cave bottom, and it was always above this clay and 

 never in it, that Mr. Paret's workmen found (often in his 

 absence, for business prevented his continued supervision) the speci- 

 mens collected : the thin chipped blade of argillite (fifty feet in to 

 the extreme right; depth not stated, the four bone awls; the pots- 

 herd, (outside the entrance on a ledge) ; the bone fish-hook, needle and 

 harpoon;^ along with remains of the lynx, gray fox, wolf, skunk, 



' I have just recieved the following interesting letter from Mr. Paret : 



Stroudsburg, Pa., March 25, 1894. 



Deae Sir : 



Yours of 10th at hand and I am obliged for your letter and for your 

 slip as to the cave discussion at the Academy of Nat. Sciences. Have you had 

 the clay examined microscopically ? If not, it might be advisable. Something 

 might be learned as to its origin. 



The potsherd was not dug out. It Avas not found by my men, but a visitor 

 who picked it upy>'cw/ f/ie surface, from that shelf of rock, away up on the right, 

 (as you face the cave ) where I and a man worked a little while you were 

 there. It was on f side of the cave entirely, on a rock shelf, at foot of clifl'. away 

 above the cave level. The shell has a curious history : One of my men brought 

 it to me His two boys got into a quarrel at home, he interfered and found they 

 were disputing for the shell. He asked where it came from and they said, from the 

 cave; so he took it away from them. He told me it was full of clay and that he 

 washed it out. He is a man in whom I have implicit trust. The argillite l)ladc 

 and peccaiy jaws were found about same time and place — about 50 feet inside of 

 cave, on extreme right. The fish-hook was found on same side, but not so far in. 

 I do not think there is anything to prove how old the horse tooth is. The one 

 striking fact to me is that no stone tool has been found at any depth or dug out. 

 The potsherd was on bare rock. The arrowhead I found was in earth on a flat 

 rock — only a few inches covered and a few inches of earth below. But the bone 

 tools were all dug from below the surface. Boys talk is that many stone tools used 

 to be picked up on the rock shelves inside of the cave. Why were none found in 

 the soil as those of bone were ? 



I feel sure that if stone was in free use when the bone was, some would have 

 been found with the bone. ... I am firm in my belief that your trench 

 is of small value till a >/nu/i longer one is extended at right angles outwards. I 

 also believe that if all the debris in front Of cave was removed much more might 

 be found. Your trench simply proved that no human or animal remains were 

 contained in a cross cut of that length and narrow width. There is room outside 

 it for many hearths at various levels. . . . 



Youi-s truly, 



T. DuNKiN Paket. 



