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builder or Indian in pre-Columbian times regarded galena as other 
than a hard, glittering stone to be pounded or rubbed into trinkets.‘ 
Still we know that the Rhode Island Indians very soon learned the 
art of pewter casting from Roger Williams’ colonists, and the question 
therefore, is, had Indians in Eastern Pennsylvania by 1780-90 
learned from white men how to smelt bullets from galena for their 
newly acquired guns? 
Whether or not these lead tales furnish us with an archeological clue 
of importance, they seem less strange than the story told me on July 
12, 1893, by Charles Keller (now 84 years old), of Point Pleasant, 
Bucks County, Pa., as related to him sixty years ago by his father, 
Christopher Keller. About the end of the last century Peter Keller, 
Christopher’s brother, had refused to do some iron work for a band of 
Indians at his blacksmith shop, on Tohickon Creek, above Stover’s 
mill (the present Redding Meyers farm,) about six miles above its 
mouth on the Delaware River. When he pleaded as an excuse that 
his supply of charcoal was exhausted, the Indians went into the forest 
and after nearly a day’s absence returned with a basket full of “stone” 
(anthracite) coal, with which he did the job. 
H. C. Mercer. 
‘After the present pages were written, Mr. Walter Chase, of Madison, Wiscon- 
sin, showed me a small figure of a turtle of cast lead found by him at a surface 
Indian camp site in 1889 on the shore of Lake Wingra, two miles southwest of 
Madison. Dr. Hall, of Madison, had another plowed up by a farmer in 1891, 
with a stone axe and four or five arrowheads, from an effigy mound shaped, itself, 
somewhat like a turtle, on the shore of Lake Mendota, near Madison. Two 
perforated dises of cast lead have also been found by farmers in Dare County, 
Wisconsin, and are now in the possession of neighboring collectors. Galena 
occurs in Southern Wisconsin in small, loose masses in a very pure state. 
