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human implements heretofore unnoticed, I beg you to recollect 
that this claim is based upon a long experience, and that any skill 
I may possess is the result of much study and examination of 
stones that have been intentionally broken by man’s hands, and 
of comparison of the manner in which they differ from those 
which have been accidentally fractured. I do not anticipate that 
others will recognize upon a superficial examination what it has 
taken me years of hard labor to be able to detect. But I do 
expect to be able to convince all candid investigators that the 
objects I shall lay before you cannot have been produced by 
purely natural agencies. These are, however, let me add, only a 
small selection from the much larger quantity that I have found, 
but which it would be impracticable for me to attempt to exhibit 
here, but which I shall be pleased to show to all who may desire to 
examine them. 
If it be satisfactorily established that these objects are indeed 
what I claim that they are, primitive human implements, the far 
more perplexing question immediately presents itself : Who were 
the men that fabricated and used them ? Are they the work of 
the native races, who were occupying this country when it was 
first discovered by Europeans, or are they the sole remaining relics 
of an earlier and a ruder people ? At first, my own opinion, in 
spite of their very rude character, inclined to regard them as the 
work of the tribes found dwelling here, although these were cer- 
tainly at that time as far advanced as the stage of the “ polished 
stone age.” This is proved daily by the discovery of specimens 
of their workmanship in stone, as beautiful as can be found in 
any part of the globe. The production of such finished articles 
undoubtedly implies the existence of a class of skilled workmen. 
But it by no means follows from this that the average, untrained 
man may not often have had occasion or been compelled to make 
use of the first things that came to hand for some simple or tem- 
porary purpose. Under this category I was at first inclined to 
class these rude objects. But on further investigation I began to 
find the selfsame types recurring over and over again, and that too 
in localities, where after the most careful search I failed to dis- 
cover any of those ordinary evidences of Indian occupation that 
are scattered in such profusion over the length and breadth of 
