METALLIC IMPLEMENTS OF NEW YORK INDIANS is 
abundance, and correspondence with collectors in various parts 
of New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania now convince me that 
the use of copper, as implements and ornaments, was much more 
common than I supposed, and that among the Delaware Indians. 
were many coppersmiths.” He cites examples of articles which 
he thought were made of New Jersey copper, this not being rare. 
One mass in Somerset county weighed 100 pounds, and it also 
occurred in the eastern counties of Pennsylvania. Finished. 
ornaments were found in graves with others unfinished, and in 
one grave was a copper nodule of 13 ounces. His final opinion 
is thus expressed: 
It would appear, then, from an examination of the copper 
objects found in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, that the weight 
of probability is strongly in favor of their home manufacture; 
and the similarity of the forms to those taken from areas where: 
mounds occur is another fact in favor of the rapidly growing im- 
pression that the builders of these earthworks and the Indians of 
the coast were essentially one people.—Abbott, p. 774-78 
Dr Abbott’s statements are weighty, but there are other facts. 
which may prevent their full acceptance. No argument will be 
held on these now, one important fact clearly appearing, that 
there were supplies of native copper accessible to the coast In- 
- dians which were not available to those in the interior of New 
York. 
Mr David Boyle remarks that copper articles are comparatively 
rare in the province of Ontario and that the line of distribution 
seems to be through the Georgian bay and along the Ottawa 
river. Few have been reported in the Neutral country, lying 
near the north shore of Lake Erie. As a matter of fact the 
Toronto collection has many fine examples of early and recent 
forms. The latter are not so frequent as in New York, owing to 
the overthrow of the Huron, Neutral and Tobacco nations in the 
middle of the 17th century. 'The country was depopulated just 
as these were beginning to be most freely used. Those of native 
copper have a few forms not reported in New York. Some fine 
articles come from Wolfe island, opposite Cape Vincent. As 
_ this lies nearer the New York mainland than that of Canada, 
