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following - objects : About 200 pounds of galena, some of the larger 

 pieces being rudely grooved, similar to the aboriginal stone axes and 

 mauls, as though for warclubs — casse-tetes ; a number of arrow and 

 spear heads and other relics ; a small copper hatchet, a copper chisel 

 about 5 inches long, and about twenty copper ornaments, most of these 

 having small holes drilled as though for suspension ; six or seven large 

 shells [Fulgar carica) ; some shell disks and beads and pieces of wooden 

 matting about G inches square, made of bark or cane and much decayed. 

 One of the copper chisels and some of the galena were in one of the 

 coffins. 



The opening of the cave was enlarged, and became a place of some 

 celebrity, being visited by the citizens, neighbors, guests, etc., who 

 carried away such things as suited their fancy. The skulls were car- 

 ried away by doctors, and the beads were appropriated by the children, 

 while others broke up the galena and carried it away for the purpose 

 of making bullets. 



The cave remained in this condition for twenty or more years. Dur- 

 ing the war for the suppression of the rebellion, the cave was excava- 

 ted for saltpeter, and was also a hiding-place for refugees. The coffins 

 were badly damaged, as is shown by their present condition, but 

 fortunately were not destroyed. How they could have escaped use as 

 firewood is scarcely imaginable. 



The late Rev. William Crump owned the land on which the cave was 

 situated, and from whom it takes its name, and his family still owns it. 

 They had in their possession a few years ago, a number of copper 

 objects, a few stone implements, and two of the large shells, one of 

 which was used at the blacksmith shop for pouring water on hot iron. 

 1 made effort to obtain these relics, but failed. They permitted me to 

 visit the cave and collect the coffins and pieces there, which I hauled 

 a distance of 30 miles to the railroad, and shipped them to the Na- 

 tional Museum. I spent some time on different occasions in visiting 

 this cave and talking to Mr. James Newman and others who discov- 

 ered the cave, and obtained from them the facts which I have here re- 

 corded and which I regard in every way as reliable. That the cave 

 was a very old burial place is undeniable. 



There is a small mound at the foot of the bluff in the narrow river 

 bottom, and around it a number of relics have been plowed up, one 

 of which was a "stone wheel" with a groove around it, probably used 

 as part of a machine for drilling holes in stone and copper. 



About five miles north of the Crump Cave, on the mountain of lime- 

 stone just beneath the overhanging cliff of Millstone Grit, I found and 

 forwarded to the Museum an Indian ladder which stood against the 

 precipice and had been used to mount or climb up to what the people 

 call a "rock house," i. e., a large, roomy, dry place under overhanging 

 cliffs of stone, probably used like the cave, for burial purposes. This 

 ladder is the trunk of a cedar tree about 8 inches in diameter, is about 



