suspecting that archeologists wore merely gathering at Trenton 
the rejectage of Indian implement making, the present writer had 
his assistant, who was well qualified for the work, spend several 
weeks in a deep city sewer excavation which was being cut through 
these gravels, but not a single specimen of worked s one was dis¬ 
covered* This led to the vigorous challenging of the assign, ent 
of the early finds at Trenton to a hypothetical people of hypothet- 
-leal antiquity, and tB tfcip implication that all other like occur¬ 
rences require corresponding treat: ent, 
:.o numerous wore the stone implement makers of the known 
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American tribes5 so fully have they every available variety 
of stone in every section of the country, leaving countless par- 
tlally-shaped wastersj so deeply hake they carried their excav¬ 
ation Wl s® subject to disturbance by wind and water assisted 
by the ever-active forces of gravity, that the intermingling of 
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rojeeiage with fragmental superficial formation has been vast be- 
yond estimate* 
in closing* I venture to malm the assertion that there has 
