The results of the work are set forth too fully in the introduct¬ 
ory and concluding divisions of the monograph to require repetition; 
yet one of the conclusions would seen to he worthy of special emphhsis; 
the outcome of the quartzite quarries and implements suffices to dem¬ 
onstrate that whatsoever he true of other countried and provinces, 
the rudely flaked stones of the Totomae-Chesapeake province do not \ 
represent a lower or more primitive culture than that of the Indians 
found in the province by John Smith and o*her explorers, and do repre¬ 
sent the by-products, waste, or rejectage, or stone-working by the 
Algonquian and neighboring Indians* Thus, whatsoever be true of 
other districts, in this district the rudest stonework known to the 
archeologist and the finest stone carving, pottery, basketry, and wood¬ 
work represent a single culture stage. This cm elusion is not put 
forth tentatively or provisionally, but as a final result of the most 
thorough single piece of archeologic research ever conducted in America 
vVhile the chief subject of the monograph is the description and 
discussion of the quartzite quarries and implements, there are cst her 
features of note. The account of the quarrying and manufacture of 
steatite depicts with renarkab^e fullness and clearness a little-under- 
stood phase of aboriginal art in eastern United States, The tracing 
of several materials used in primitive art to their sources in distant 
mountains is on© of the minor triumphs of American archeology, and 
illustrates well the thoj^ou^hness of the methods pursued in the work; 
and there are other features worthy of careful attention by students 
of archeology*” (Pagos XCIV-XCV-XCVI-XCVII) 
