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I recall a curiously fashioned fragment of a 

 lower jaw, with the teeth in place, the purpose 

 evidently being that of an ornament. Teeth 

 and claws of bears are still popular with the 

 untamed red man, and this bit of a cougar's 

 jaw told the same story. I have seen, too, a 

 rude etching on a slate that seemed to be in- 

 tended for this animal, one of the few inscribed 

 stones which could not be held in suspicion, not 

 passing through too many hands before reaching 

 an archaeologist 



Peter Kalm makes no reference to the cougar, 

 and yet it was still roaming through South Jersey 

 even at the time of his visit, 1749, but, pre- 

 sumably, of rare occurrence. 



After the trail, a bridle-path, or, more cor- 

 rectly, the one became the other, through the 

 same boundless forest, extending as it did from 

 the river to the ocean. It was available, as a 

 path, for a horse and its rider only, and some 

 years elapsed before it was widened and became 

 a roadway for carts. Here documentary evi- 

 dence helps us a little. The cart-road in time 

 became a highway that permitted the use of 

 four-wheeled vehicles, but it was still a twisting, 



