COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL EXPOSITION AT MADRID. 



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a &quot;Paleolithic&quot; stage of culture, who lived during the deposition of 

 the gravels in Post-Glacial times. 



Their opponents fear that the finders of these &quot;Paleoliths&quot; have 

 been deceived. Having visited the Pennsylvania Eailroad cuts and 

 certain ditches in the gravels at Trenton and failed to find specimens, 

 they suppose that the specimens were really found by the others in 

 deceptive beds of talus, where the stratified layers had been read 

 justed; that the seeming ancient stratification is the comparatively 

 modern work of freshets in Stony Branch Creek near the cuts; that the 

 objects, even if actually in Glacial gravel, had slipped down through 

 holes made by roots or animals or the cavities of uprooted trees. 



Fig. 14. (?) 



TRENTON SPECIMENS OP ARGILLITE FROM THE ABBOTT COLLECTION, PEABODY MUSEUM, CAMBRIDGE, 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



Alleged to have been found in situ in the gravels. 



(Photographed by kind permission of Professor Putr 



find Dr. C. C. Abbott in Septembe-, 1893. ) 



They insist further that the chipped objects, however found, exactly 

 resemble the forms of jasper and hornstone recently discovered in the 

 refuse heaps of the modern Indian quarries (above described) and clas 

 sified as &quot;rejects,&quot; &quot;wasters,&quot; or blocked-out implements, that these 

 chipped objects, therefore, are not to be considered finished tools, and 

 if found in place do not prove that the man who made them was in a 

 Paleolithic state or differed in culture from the modern Indian. 



Like the quarryinan of Piney Branch he may have lived, they say, on 

 the hillsides at a distance from the cold flood, only descending there at 

 moments to find on the beaches material for chipped implements, when 

 having of necessity left his &quot; wasters&quot; and &quot;failures&quot; by the waters, he 

 would have carried back the available blanks to his hilltop camp to be 

 finished into knives, scrapers, or spears. 



All this is rendered more forcible by the continued finding of other 

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