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nished, but from ragged-edged fragments rivetted together; and, 
finally, that the copper specimens were never found associated with 
objects of white man’s make. But the main point had been already 
reasonably proved. The absence of lead had settled the question, and 
wherever the mound-building Floridans got their raw material, whether 
from the ancient diggings at Lake Superior, from Mexico, or from 
Cuba, where lead is equally absent in the native deposits, it never came 
from Europe. 
H. C. MERCER. 
