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At Tottenville the sites are so well known through the many 

 papers and notes which have been published in our Proceedings 

 during the past thirty years,- and through the investigations of 

 Mr. George H. Pepper for the American Museum of Natural 

 History, that further description here is not necessary. Recent 

 rains had washed down part of the bluff, and exposed some 

 objects but, from the scratched and trampled appearance of the 

 spot when examined for the Museum, local collectors had appar- 

 ently swarmed over the whole bluff in the neighborhood of Burial 

 Ridge. A single argillite arrowpoint was found on the beach 

 below high water mark. 



Nearer the village of Tottenville the top of a sand hill was 

 removed a year or more ago and the contents used to fill up a 

 pond near by. Great quantities of shells were exposed. These 

 formed a heap six to twelve inches thick, but it contained few 

 relics. A fragment of the stem of a clay pipe was found and 

 some sherds. Probably this was a clam and oyster drying place 

 merely. Such sites rarely contain many relics. Probably many 

 of the Staten Island and coastal New Jersey sites are of this 

 character. 



In closing it may be said that the sites at Rossville and Kreisch- 

 erville are, apparently, little known to most Staten Island col- 

 lectors. Only one of the many contributions to our local arche- 

 ology is concerned with Rossville'^ and Kreischerville has received 

 only occasional incidental mention. 



2. Site at Morgan's, New Jersey* 

 On June 4, 1907, in accordance with the instructions of Dr. 

 Wissler, curator of the department of ethnology and archeology 

 of the American Museum of Natural History, the writer made 



2 Proc. Nat. Sci. Assoc. Staten Isl. i: i, 2, 1883; 6, 8, 10, 12, 1884; 24, 

 1885; 39, 1886; 59, 1887; 2: 17, 1889; 3: 12, 1892; 40, 1893; 4: 48, 1894; 

 53, 69, 70, -/d, 1895 ; 6 : 18, 25, 1897 ; etc. 



3 Proc. Nat. Sci. Assoc. Staten Isl. 3 : zi, i893- 



* For previous mention of this locality see Proc. Nat. Sci. Assoc. Staten 

 Isl. 1 : 34, 38, 1886. 



