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associated with indications of the presence of 

 man. Perhaps an exception should be made 

 in the case of Professor J. M. Clarke, who 

 found fragments of charcoal in a deposit of 

 muck under some bones of mastodon. 



We may pass by the so-called " Elephant 

 Mound," which to the eye of an unimaginative 

 observer looks as if it might have been in- 

 tended for any one of several beasts ; also, with 

 bated breath and due respect for the bitter con- 

 troversy waged over them, pass we by the ele- 

 phant pipes. There remains, then, not a bit 

 of man's handiwork, not a piece of pottery, en- 

 graved stone, or scratched bone that can un- 

 hesitatingly be said to have been wrought into 

 the shape of an elephant before the coming of 

 the white man. True, there is " The Lenape 

 Stone," found near Doyleston, Pa., in 1872, 

 a gorget graven on one side with the represen- 

 tation of men attacking an elephant, while the 

 other bears a number of figures of various an- 

 imals. The good faith of the finder of this 

 stone is unimpeachable, but it is a curious fact 

 that, while this gorget is elaborately decorated 

 on both sides, no similar stone, out of all that 



