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THE STONE AGE IN NEW JERSEY. 199 
Geologists now regard the slates of Taconic Mt. and the lime. 
stone, also, as of Lower Silurian age, but later than the Potsdam 
sandstone. Logan refers them to the Quebec group. Whatever 
the period of the slates, or slates and associated limestones, to 
that period properly pertains the term Taconic. 
THE STONE AGE IN NEW JERSEY. 
[Concluded from March Number, p. 160.] 
BY CHARLES G. ABBOTT, M.D. 
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Arrownraps.—No one class of relics of a savage race presents 
at once so great a variety of shapes, sizes and materials; and 
the former presence of “ Indians,” is more generally known to the 
people at large through the frequent occurrence of these arrow- 
Points, than by means of any other style of weapon or implement ; 
not even excepting the cumbrous axes that not unfrequently go to 
make up the piles of cobblestones that accumulate in field corners 
or by the roadside. One of the largest axes we have seen, which 
We have since sent to Sir John Lubbock, was found supporting a 
Section of worm-fence, where it had been lying thus for at least a 
_ century. 
: These arrowheads, which are found scattered over every por- 
tion of the state, are, very naturally, much more numerous in some _ 
localities than in others; and as no one style appears to be pecu- 
liar to any one locality, a good series from even a very limited 
_ Gesperate undertaking, as no well marked style has yet been found 
: ne : af Closely allied varieties. The Darwinism of arrowheads 
: sang supplemental theory to make it good, nor are there 
that cannot be explained by a somewhat similar and more 
Prof. Nilsson (‘Stone Age in Scandinavia,” Eng. 
s “ we may divide arrowheads into such as have, 
