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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 
