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one-quarter mile from Kintnerville. It extends along the Delaware 

 several hundred yards, and back from the river about 50 yards. Its ex- 

 tent may easily be traced by the broken cobblestones and chips of 

 flint and jasper which are thickly strewn over the surface. Many of 

 the cobblestones bear marks of fire. Among this refuse a large num- 

 ber of relics have been found. They exhibit all degrees of workman- 

 ship from the rudest to the most skillfully wrought. The most abun- 

 dant relic is the arrow-point, of which have been here collected more than 

 400 specimens. Many show by their workmanship that they were made 

 by a people who had advanced in the stone art to a high degree of 

 skill. In this locality have also been found many hammers, spear- 

 heads, scrapers, and plummets. The spear-heads found are generally 

 broken. Among the rarer implements are drills, polishing-stones, axes, 

 celts, knives, paint-cups, pestles, ceremonial hatchets, and amulets. 

 The hatchets and amulets are all broken, but are highly polished and 

 well proportioned. They show great skill and patience on the part of 

 those who shaped them. Fragments of pottery are plentiful. Some of 

 it is ornamented. Many of the fragments are well preserved, but others 

 are crumbling and have the appearance of great age. The material used 

 in the manufacture of the stone implements of this and the other vil- 

 lage sites in the township is that found iu the locality. Probably one- 

 half of the arrow-points are made of trap, the remainder of jasper, 

 quartz, red shale, &c. But few specimens are made of the last-named 

 mineral, which is not a very durable material for stone implements. 



No. 2 is also the site of an ancient village, on the farm of Mr. Clark ; 

 one mile north of Holland Station, Huuterdon County, New Jersey. 

 The extent of this village was not as great as that at No. 1, but it has 

 added to our collection many fine specimens. Among these is half of 

 the bowl of a stone pipe, the only fragment of a stone pipe yet found. 

 Its shape is similar to Fig. 179 in Dr. Abbott's Stone Age in New Jer- 

 sey. Two stone axes of very rude workmanship were picked up at this 

 place. The rudest is an ordinary cobblestone notched at the sides, near 

 one end, and slightly grooved half way across one side. The other is 

 an oval cobblestone, 11 inches in length, with a narrow groove around 

 one end. No attempt seems to have been made to sharpen either of 

 these axes. 



No. 3 is a locality on the farm of Mr. Snyder, near Holland Church, 

 where have been found a number of spear and arrow points, most of 

 them broken. Tradition tells us that this was an ancient battle-ground. 

 Two tribes lived in the vicinity, and the children, in their wanderings, 

 met each other and quarreled about a large grasshopper which one of 

 them had found. This resulted in a war, and this locality is said to be 

 the place where the decisive battle was fought. The conflict was wit- 

 nessed by a white man from the opposite side of the river. Such is the 

 tradition as it exists in the neighborhood. 



