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underlying schists, and so low on the slopes as to indicate clearly 

 that the gullies were of practically present depth and contour when 

 the quarry operations were in progress. There does not appear 

 either in the character of the work done, the condition of the site, 

 the relation of the quarry product to the types of chipi)ed artifacts 

 of the general region, or the observed order of super})osition of 

 types, the least reason for assuming other agencies than the known 

 tribes, difference in culture status, or geological distinctions in time,^ 



^ For the detailed report on these quarries, see nolmes, Stoue Implements, Fifteenth, 

 Ann. Rep. Bur. Amcr. Ethn., 1S97. 



