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either in physical character or the arts of life to the 

 aborigines of America at the time of its discovery. 

 Another is, that in their rude manufactures, their 

 habits of life, their social institutions, and their re- 

 ligious beliefs, they must have resembled the Ame- 



Fig. 3. IMPLEMENTS OF POLISHED STONE, EUROPE. 

 (After Nilsson.) 



ricans in the closest and most precise manner. These 

 two great leading truths it will be my province to 

 establish and illustrate in the following pages. In the 

 meantime I may appeal to the eye by a few woodcut 

 illustrations of implements and weapons of the Stone 



