Mac Curdy — Passing of a Connecticut Rock Shelter. 519 



day after an extra charge of dynamite had been set off loosen- 

 ing an enormous mass of trap, the foreman warned me not to 

 approach the Cave. That same evening at about 10 o'clock, 

 with a " roar that shook houses in the vicinity and awoke the 

 inmates of Springside Home, " a mass of rock estimated at 

 thousands of tons, in fact all that remained of the overhang, 

 and reaching up and back to the top of Pine Rock, became 

 dislodged and fell like an avalanche, burying several nearby 



22B 



Arrowheads and drills, all one-half natural size. 



Figs. 17, 18, are of quartz. Figs. 20. 22b, and 25a, hornstone. 

 quartzite. Fig. 24, felsite porphyry. Fig. 25b, trap. 



Fig. 22a, 



pigpens owned by Mr. Farnham. The number of killed and 

 injured swine is said to have been over two score. The work- 

 men would have met a similar fate had the accident occurred 

 during working hours. The noble shelter has completely 

 disappeared, but thanks to the generosity of several local 

 collectors, the Museum possesses the major part of the relics 

 found there. The two-fold regret is that the removal of the 

 deposits could not have been scientifically controlled, and that 

 the shelter itself could not have been spared as a sort of out- 

 door annex to the University Museum. Of the specimens 

 figured all we know is that they came from the Cave. There 

 is absolutely no record as to the relative positions of the 

 various objects in the relic-bearing deposits. 



