THE 
AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
Voi. xv. — FUNE, 1881. — No. 6. 
ARCHAOLOGY OF VERMONT. 
BY PROF. GEO. H, PERKINS. 
fs a paper published in the Natura.ist for December, 1879, 
the writer attempted to present the chief physical features of 
the Champlain valley, and to give a general idea of its archeology. 
That paper may suffice as an introduction to the present and 
future papers, in which some of the more important groups of 
archeological objects will be discussed more fully than would be 
possible in a more comprehensive article. Before proceeding, how- 
€ver, to the main topic of this article, I wish to add a few general 
Statements to those previously given. It has been a cause of some 
Surprise to me to discover a close resemblance between many of our 
Most peculiar Vermont specimens and others from the Mohawk val- 
ley and other parts of New York. We should naturally expect to 
find similarity, as we do, in the specimens found on the eastern 
and western shores of Lake Champlain, but we should scarcely 
©xpect to find many nearly identical specimens in Western Ver- 
Mont and Central New York. But Mr. Frey, near Palatine bridge, 
and Rev. Mr. Beauchamp, near Baldwinsville, find stone tubes, 
Carvings, amulets, &c., some of which are precisely like those 
found in Vermont, but not, at least up to this time, found in the 
Tegion bordering the western shore of Lake Champlain. In many 
Fespects our collections of stone implements and pottery from 
Western Vermont seem more closely allied to those from the 
Mohawk and Genesee valleys than to those from other parts of 
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