Wben Gra65 is Green 



their ignorance and impudent assumptions warps 

 the minds of all who hear them. These polished 

 professors, without knowledge, with malice, and 

 moved by ulterior motives in all they say, have 

 concluded that the Indian is a recent comer to 

 the Delaware valley. The truth is, the red man 

 or his predecessor saw the glacial conditions that 

 once existed here; but, as one of this oily fraternity 

 remarked, " This must be determined by an expert." 

 No definition was added as to what makes an 

 expert. Not a fellow like himself, let us hope; 

 for his skill has been all his life to pose as the pol- 

 ished professor of glittering generalities stolen from 

 others, and with never a fact of his own gathering 

 in his possession. 



The men who have been digging near by have 

 recently removed the soil over a considerable area, 

 and on the hard clay underneath were found abun- 

 dant traces of man, far ruder in all respects than 

 those of the Indian dotting the overlying earth. 

 It was evidence of that intermediate period, be- 

 tween the rude hunter of the glaciated river and 

 the people with whom William Penn treated. 

 The story of ancient man in America is told in all 

 its completeness in this one river valley, that would 

 boast of a clearer atmosphere were the doubting 

 Thomases gathered to their fathers. 



146 



