THE STONE AGE IN NEW JERSEY. 
yearly turned up by the plough, gathered, as ‘curiosities,’ or 
momentarily gazed upon and thrown aside to turn up again, more 
broken than before, and so more a puzzle to him who finds them. 
Again, at odd times, a ‘‘deposit” is met with, deep in the soil 
and a neighborhgod may have the even tenor of its way disturbed 
by the wise comments of village sages, who ponder gravely over 
the “injine things” and never think to preserve them. A record 
of a number of these “finds,” however, has put us in possession 
Fig. 10. Fig. 11. 
1-2 natu ral size. 1-2 natural size. 
of this fact, that the banks of our rivers and larger creeks were 
the favorite localities of these people of the stone age,— these 
Indians, if you choose —a people who had at no time a knowl- 
edge of metals, unless perhaps they utilized the many masses 
ot native copper, which even a century ago were still to be found 
in some localities (neighborhood of New Brunswick, Middlesex 
and Somerset counties). There are yet savages in their stone 
age; and it was not many centuries ago that a people along the 
laware River fashioned from its sandstone and porphyry peb- 
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