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ful works of art or not having properly established relationships with the gravels in place. In the discussion of gravel man in eastern America a wide range of objects and phenomena has been considered, but the real evidence, upon which the theory of an ancient race and a peculiar culture must depend, is furnished by a hundred pieces—more or less—of rudely flaked stones said to have come from the gravels in place. And now what can be said with reference to this series of flaked stones further than that they are reported by the collector to have been found in the gravels at definite stated depths? I have elsewhere shown that they are not demonstrably implements in any case, that they are identical in every respect with the quarry-shop rejects of the American Indian, that they do not closely resemble any one of the well established types of European paleolithic implements, and that they are not a sufficient index of a particular stage of culture. I shall now present such reasons as there may be for the belief, held by many, that they were not really found in the undisturbed glacial gravels.

It is generally understood that the earliest reported gravel finds of importance were made on the banks of Assanpink creek within the city limits of Trenton, where the gravels to a thickness of twenty feet or more were exposed in a railway cutting. Later the river bluff near the lower end of the city, where the gravels were exposed to a depth of from twenty-five to forty feet, yielded large numbers. These two sites, so far as I can learn, furnished at least three-fourths of the finds in place. Other specimens were found singly in slight natural exposures, and in excavations for cellars, sewers, etc., at various points within the city limits.

The river bluff was for a considerable period the favorite hunting ground of the searchers for rudely flaked stones, and many specimens were collected. The gravels were exposed in a steep, nearly straight bank, several hundred yards in length, the base of which was washed by the river. There can be no question that Dr. Abbott and others have found shaped objects of various classes upon and in the face of this river bluff, and