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have their own minister who at present is Mr. 

 Laembner. 



In Mr. William Henry, a rifle-maker, I got to know 

 a modest and sagacious man. He not only under- 

 stands his art thoroughly but occupies himself with other 

 branches of knowledge. From him I obtained some 

 Indian arrow-points such as they at one time worked 

 from the hardest carnelian and agate. Since the In- 

 dians exchanged their bows for fire-arms, the art has 

 been lost among them of making these and other 

 utensils, such as pottery, tobacco-bowls &c, from dif- 

 ferent sorts of stone. Arrow-points like these are now 

 found only by chance in fields or other places where 

 Indians on the hunt had lost them. In this region 

 several rifle-makers are occupied in the making and 

 repair of arms for the Indians as well as for other 

 people of the country. At Mr. Henry's I saw a little 

 piece of a fine, yellow sort of marl which had been 

 dug up not far away at a depth of 15 ft. Near Beth- 

 lehem, on the other side of the Leheigh, marl is fre- 

 quently found at a less depth, but coarser and not of 

 a uniform color. The people of the back country 

 yearn for marl because they imagine it to be a uni- 

 versal manure and fancy it might save them the trouble 

 (which they do not like at all) of collecting other 

 manure and should they find it there it would not be 

 suited to their lands which are more sand than clay. 

 Mr. Henry mentioned that he had several times found 

 about Nazareth sand-stones containing a core, ap- 

 parently lime. Sand-stones are also found which are 

 hard enough to be squared, but there are too many 

 quartz-veins in them. The limestone hills which begin 

 about Easton continue between and around Nazareth 



