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that the muck would be an excellent thiug to spread on his land, set 

 one of his men at work haulin-g it out. While employed in digging, his 

 spade brought up a number of arrow-points. He described them to be 

 nicely piled side by side, edgewise, in two or three rows. There were 

 perhaps two or three hundred in all. On each side and on top were 

 some charred logs and sticks, that seemed to be the remains of an old 

 fire. They were 10 or 15 inches below the surface of the pond. They 

 are of a blue jaspery flint, and seem to be in an unfinished coudition. 

 I thought that probably the Indians had brought them from a distance 

 (as I have never found any of the same rock anywhere in this neighbor- 

 hood) and made this pocket and covered the traces of them by building 

 a fire, intending to return and finish them at their leisure ; or, perhaps, 

 they hid them there to prevent their capture by their enemies. 



STONE CELTS IN THE WEST INDIES AND IN AFRICA. 



(Extract from a letter of Geo. J. Gibbs, esq., Turks Island.) 



Mr. Gibbs draws attention to a paragraph (vol. ii, p. 451) in the work 

 of Martin Fernandez Navarrete, a French translation of which was 

 published in Paris in 1828, entitled "Eelations des Quatre Voyages 

 entrepris par Christophe Colombe, &c.," in which the natives of all the 

 West Indies are said to use ^' des baches et des ermiuettes faites avec 

 des pierres si elegantes et si bien travailldes, qu'on ne pent trop s'eton- 

 ner de ce qu'ils out pu les fabriquer sans fer." On page 448, vol ii, M. 

 Navarrete repeats the words of Columbus concerning the idolatry of the 

 natives, "Car dans leur maisons ils ont des idoles de plusieurs esi)eces. 

 Je (Columbus) leur ai demand^ ce que c'etait, et ils m'ont repondu que 

 c'etait une chose de Turey, ce qui veut dire du del." 



In the same letter, Mr. Gibbs, after drawing attention to several 

 places in Livingstone's " Last Journal," where the distinguished author 

 denies ever having heard of stone implements in Africa (pp. 83, 89, 

 442, 448), says that in 1841 a Spanish slave-ship was wrecked on the 

 Caicos Islands. In conversation with Mr. Gibbs, who showed some of 

 the negroes a stone celt, they remarked that such things were wor- 

 shiped in their country, that they fall from heaven during thunder- 

 storms, and that they are a sure preventive of the evil effects of light- 

 ning to those who keep them in their houses. It is esteemed very 

 unlucky to part with one under any circumstances. 



THE INDIANS OF PERU. 



By F. L. Galt, M. D., of Lynchburg, Va. 



The tribes of South American Indians who live on and to the east- 

 ward of the Andes in Peru belong, according to d'Orbigny's classifica- 

 tion, to the Race AndoPeruvlenne, one branch of which he designates as 



