146 THE STONE AGE IN NEW JERSEY. 
bles the weapons and implements their primitive wants suggest 
These “ relics” are now (with exceptions to be mention hele 
ter) surface-found specimens; but when a hundred or more 
gathered together and carefully compared, we must come to one 
of two conclusions; either that there were many execrable work- 
men among their tool makers ; or that the age of the crude spec 
imens far exceeds that of 
finely wrought relics. 
found on the surface, ye 
can scarcely imagine that 
people who could fashion 
latter, would deign to utili 
may, there is always 48 
tion from poor (orimitis 
good (elaborate), whic 
indication, we believe, of 
lapse of years from very 
cient to more modern ti 
from a palolithic to & y 
lithic age ; and long after BY 
introduction of meta E 
1-2 natural size. ; : 
ones continually 
tured. Arrow heads of stone, we know, are still in use. 
surmise be correct, if a people as rude as they who fashio 
wrought flints found at St. Acheul, near Amiens, France, ; 
dwelt on the shores of the Delaware, and the relics arè as ri 
as those mentioned above, were not such a people too pr 
to wander from another continent? We believe this and ag 
the first inhabitants along our Atlantic coast ane inlar 
been autochthones,+ and that their “ flint ¢ hips ” are now - 
* Nilsson on the Stone Age. Edited by Sir J. Lubbock. Page xi xix) SF aren 
t We judge of our “Indians” by those ane = are now the esr i 
REPES and finding stone implements as rude as those of A 
the 
Hoxne (see Lubbock’s Prehistoric times), we polek conclu ha if 
of such “flints” were so primitive as to be incapable of a migra pom l 
