238 In Touch with Nature. 



small stream, for a distance of six hundred yards, 

 was the same abundance of such refuse, and that 

 a permanent village, with its varied interests, ex- 

 isted here is shown by the occurrence of that full 

 range of objects having to do with their domestic 

 life, agriculture, hunting, fishing, and, most sug- 

 gestive of all, their personal vanity. They had, 

 too, if not banks, a reliable system of safe deposit, 

 for "in unmarked holes in the ground were placed 

 enormous numbers of valuable objects. In this 

 creek-side village-site were found above one hun- 

 dred globular stones, some with grooves, and all 

 artificially rounded. These had evidently been 

 placed where found by their owner, and the secret 

 of their whereabouts had died with him. So much 

 the naked facts, but is nothing more to be said ? 

 For years I have rambled in the Delaware valley 

 and gathered arrow-points, until now their number 

 reaches far into the thousands, and all the while 

 wondered if from river pebbles alone the material 

 was derived. This seemed improbable, for I could 

 find so little trace in the gravel of the delicate 

 green and bright red jasper such as occurred on 

 the fields as broken implements or chips ; but now 



