PREHISTORIC ART. 



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1872 and 1881, being- turned up by a farmer while plowing on liis farm, 

 4i- miles east of Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The two 

 pieces were found in the same spot, but at diiferent times, with an inter- 

 val of nine years between. 



Mammoth {Dr. Cresson^ Belaicare). — Plate IG (fig. 2) is another aborig- 

 inal drawing of a mammoth in America. It was found by Dr. H. 

 T. Cresson and Mr. Saurault, in the neighborhood of Holly Oak Sta- 

 tion, Wilmington and Baltimore Eailroad, Delaware, on the surface 

 of a tilled field which had been covered for manuring purposes with 

 peat taken from what Dr. Cresson calls "the fallen forest layer in one 

 of the adjoining estuaries of the Delaware River." The engraving 

 represents a mammoth resembling somewhat that found at La Made- 

 laine (fig. 23). It was engraved in much the same manner, and might 



Fig. 24. 



REINDEER BROWSINH, ENOEAVED ON REINDEER ANTLER, BOTH SIDES REPRESENTED. 



Grotto of Tbayingen, near Lake Constance, Switzerland. 



rg natural size. 



have been done with the same kind of flint gravers. It is on a Fulgur 

 shell, indigenous to America, and found on the coast from Delaware to 

 Florida. The authenticity of this engraving has also been attacked. 

 Dr. Cresson and Mr. Saurault are both deceased, and no other than the 

 internal evidence presented by the object itself and the declaration of 

 its finding as aforesaid can now be furnished. Without stopping to 

 argue for the genuine aboriginal character of the engraving, it is only 

 fair to say that the appearance of the object and of the engraving are 

 indicative of antiquity, and that it presents no traces of modern work. 

 There are no indications of its having been doctored or in any way 

 tampered with, and, like the former disputed engraving, it is presented 

 (subject to future discoveries) as a genuine example of aboriginal art. 

 The reindeer. — Fig. 24 represents a reindeer (ii'aMf///e>' tarandus)\)vo\\^- 



