98 PROCEEDINGS OP THE ACADEMY OF [1894. 



weasel, raccoon, mole, dusky rat, little brown bat, woodchuck, por- 

 cupine, beaver, muskrat, gray squirrel, ground squirrel, meadow 

 mouse, white field mouse, wood rat, gray rabbit, deer, elk, wild 

 turkey, turtle, box turtle, snapper, snake, three species of Helix, 

 a Unio and a I^Iargaratina, besides (to make the discovery par- 

 ticularly noteworthy) the following remarkable objects: 



(1) A perforated marine shelP bead made from the Gomistornahis, 

 alleged by a farmer to have been brought from the cave trench by his lit- 

 tle sons, which, on the authority of Mr. Geo. W. Tryon in 1880, and 

 Mr. Pilsbry in 1894, belongs to the Pacific Coast mollusca of Central 

 America and which therefore suggests the whole question of aborigi- 

 nal trade and the query whether the cave occupants had really ob- 

 tained a shell from somewhere nearly two thousand miles away, 



(2) Several teeth of the reindeer (Rangifer caribou) which seem 

 to infer a colder climate. 



(3) A tooth of Bison amerieanus asks us to account for 

 the presence of this browsing animal of the Mississippi Plains in 

 the easternmost mountain steeps of the great forest. 



(4) The jaws and teeth of the extinct peccary, Dycotijles Pennsyl- 

 vanicits, which with (5) the teeth of the extinct giant chinchilla, Cas- 

 toroides ohioensis, suggest antiquity, though we cannot yet prove 

 that these animals became extinct in Pennsylvania more than 300 

 years ago. 



(6) Two teeth of a horse, discovered at a point and depth not noted, 

 which Dr. Leidy (who visited the cave in 1880 and identified all the 

 bones then found by Mr. Paret, see Ann. Report of Geolog. Surv. 

 of Pennsylvania, 1887, p. 1-20) says belong to an indigenous species. 

 If this be so it may well set us to wondering what aborigines on the 

 hilly upper Delaware were doing with horses before the time of Co- 

 lumbus. 



' Mr. Paret has not understood that my cross trench in the outer talus (see 

 Fifj. 2) contained both human and animal remains, in fact revealed a layer of 

 Indian occupancy, 1 foot thick and 1 1-2 to 2 feet below the surface. This layer 

 must once have continued into the cave and tlie only question is was it the only 

 layer in the cave or were there other layers under it which I did not find outside? 

 Why, asks Mr. Paret, were no stone tools found underground (if the knife is an 

 exception) by Mr. Paret's men ? There is nothing un-Indian about the bone tools 

 found. 



I should answer : because the men had missed seeing the few small, dull look- 

 ing objects that would have told the tale. The single barbed bone arrow or spear 

 is common to Eskimo and Indian, and there is, I believe, nothing un-Indian 

 about any of the bone tools discovered. 



