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hauled from the adjoining fields. Very few arrow points are found 

 arouud the mine. Chips of red and yellow jasper are found in large 

 quantities, scattered over more than 20 acres around the mine. With 

 them are found numerous river pebbles and cobblestones with hammer 

 marks on them. Some are worn off around the entire edge ; others were 

 originally nearly round, and through use became still more so. Nearly 

 all the hammers found on village sites have finger pits, but these have 

 none, and are found only around this mine. These facts seem to indicate 

 that they were used as hammers for blocking out the jasper into pieces 

 of a suitable size for implements, and that these blocks were then car- 

 ried to the villages, where they were finished. 



No. 13 is on the farm of Henry Adams, situated on the top of the 

 hill. It commands a fine view of the Delaware and Muscanetcong Val- 

 leys. Here have been found but two kinds of relics — a few arrow- 

 points and several dozen plummets. Most of the plummets found on 

 village sites are similar to Figs. 204 and 205 in Dr. Abbott's Stone Age 

 in New Jersey, but those found in this locality are nearly all like Fig. 

 203. 



No. 14. Durham Cave is the name given to a cavern in the lime- 

 stone formation on the north side of the Durham Creek, near its mouth. 

 The cave extends into the hill toward the west, parallel with the creek. 

 A large part of it has been destroyed by quarrying the limestone, which 

 is of excellent quality and was used in the furnace near by. The main 

 passage was about 350 feet long, from 4 to 40 feet wide, and averaged 

 about 12 feet in height. The floor descends as you enter, and at the 

 farther end is a fine spring. A few stalactites formerly hung from the 

 roof. About forty years ago, when the cave was opened, petrified bones 

 were found in one of the rooms. They were removed by several scien- 

 tists who had come from New York for that purpose, and were sent to 

 some scientific association in that city. A number of interesting relics 

 were also found, among them spear and arrow points, beads, and a 

 skull. The latter is said to have been sent to some museum in Phila- 

 delphia. A small room on the right of the main passage was, years ago, 

 named Queen Esther's Drawing-room, after an Indian woman. 



EELICS IN POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK. 



By Henry Booth, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 



In the southern part of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York, 

 and extending beyond the city limits, there used to be a large deposit of 

 molding sand. This has been dug out during the last seven or eight 

 years and carted away. The accompanying map shows a part of this 

 sand bed, which has proved to be of great interest. In October, 1882, 

 some fragments of human skeletons were turned up by the laborers on 



