OF THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. I3I 



I. — EVIDENCES IN EUROPE. 



In various parts of Hungary, pearls from the Indian Ocean have 

 been found. In the same country amber in the shape of beads, both 

 wrought and unwrought, have also been discovered. In- the lake 

 dwellings of Switzerland, we have already seen that amber and coral 

 in the shape of necklaces have been found. Fragments of pottery 

 discovered among the ruins of the lake villages in Switzerland, are 

 found to be coloured black by means of graphite. This mineral 

 according to Dana does not appear to occur in Switzerland, but is 

 found in various parts of Austria, Prussia and France, and it is likely 

 these people brought their supply from some of those places. In the 

 same ruins, beads of jet have also been discovered. 



Without recounting the various articles found in the tumuli, or 

 caves, one of the strongest arguments which can be adduced in favor 

 of man's agency in the matter, is the finding of human skeletons 

 entire in many places associated with the articles in which he had an 

 interest in the way of arms or ornaments. 



II. EVIDENCES IN AMERICA. 



Various articles have been found scattered throughout fhe differ, 

 ent parts of the United states and Canada, none of which could have 

 reached the localities in which they have been found by any other 

 means than by man. Thus, the numerous plates of mica, cut in 

 various shapes and sizes, found in the mounds of the Mississippi, 

 and other valleys. The finding of the immense quantities of marine 

 shells manufactured into ornaments throughout the Ohio valley. 

 Messrs. Squier and Davis found in the mounds of Ohio the following 

 species : marginella, oliva, nautica, cassis, pyrula perversa, and a large 

 species of conch. All these shells belong to tropical or sub-tropical 

 regions, and occur in the United States on the eastern shores of 

 Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Rau estimates the probable 

 limit of the shell trade to be a distance of nearly eight hundred Eng- 

 lish miles. Mr. Schoolcraft states that he found in an ossuary at 

 Beverly, in the county of Wentworth, Ontario, two specimens of 

 shells, the pyrula spirata and the pyrula perversa, both of which must 

 have come from the coast of Florida, and which were probably 

 obtained by barter from the southern Indians. Shells from the coast 

 of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico have been found over three thous- 



