PRE-HISTORIC RELICS FROM BEVERLY. 91 



pre-historic race which occupied this region, although from 

 the finding of European beads and copper trinkets in 

 connection with aboriginal stone implements, these latter 

 burials must have been made after the year 1500, when 

 Europeans had visited our shores. In the case of the 

 Beverly graves from which the objects figured were ob- 

 tained, unless the pipes are of European workmanship, 

 or were made with tools obtained from the early voyagers, 

 the age may be placed at more than 850 years. If, how- 

 ever, the pipes were made by Europeans or with tools 

 obtained from them, then 270 to 350 years would be a 

 safer estimate for the age of the objects found ; they 

 undoubtedly antedate the permanent settlement of the 

 region in 1626, 



Peabody Academy of Science, 

 Jan. 19, 1897. 



NOTE TO ARTICLE OF REV. WM. P. ALCOTT 



Since pages 92-94 were in print I have other items as to 

 the history of this Ilex from Mrs. Horner. The bush 

 originally stood by the roadside in the edge of No. 

 Andover. It was transplanted l)y Mr. P. B. Folansbee 

 to his nursei} at Raggett's Pond, and a rooting from it is 

 growing at the Arnold Arboretum. Professor Gray con- 

 sidered this plant simply a freak, like the white huckle- 

 berry, etc. 



In his "November Chromcle" A flcmtic Monthly, Nov. 

 1888, Mr. Bradford Torrey mentions finding — perhaps 

 in a wider range of conditions — 73 species blooming 

 during Nov. 1887. 



