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It has been stated in the most posith^e manner, which only posi- 

 tive evidence could warrant, that so-called paleolithic implements 

 have not been found in situ in gravel deposits at a distance from the 

 river, and such, if there were such, as appeared to be in the gravel, 

 were recent intrusions. This statement, in its several parts and its 

 entirety, is absolutely incorrect, and no excuse can be offered for 

 its publication. It is to be explained, however, because avowedly 

 predetermined. Wherever the glacial gravel of the Delaware tide- 



lii.. .1. — Ice- Gorged Eivek. 

 Reproducing on a small scale the conditions of the Glacial epoch. 



water region is found, there paleolithic implements occur, as they 

 also do on and in the surface of areas beyond the gravel boundary. 

 We accept, notwithstanding the unscientific source of the sugges- 

 tion, the statement that post-glacial floods inhumed all traces of 

 man found beneath the superficial soils, and find that, if these 

 traces are considered in that light, some mysterious power was be- 

 hind the senseless flood, and always buried argillite paleolithic im- 

 plements far down in the gravel, and then selected argillite artifacts 

 of more specialized forms for the oveidying sands and reserved the 

 pottery and jasper arrow points for the vegetation-sustaining soil. 

 This, as stated, is absurd, but such is the order of occurrence of the 

 traces of early man in the upland fields, and these are to be con- 



