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fifty feet in height. These shops, therefore, represent the most modern phases of aboriginal industry, and may have been occupied at the coming of William Penn. The second point is that every type of flaked argillite found in the Trenton region, associated with the gravels or otherwise, is found on this site. It was to a certain extent a quarry site, for the great masses of argillite brought down by the floods were here broken up and removed from the river banks or bed. It was a shop site, for here the articles, mainly blades, were roughed out, and it was also a dwelling place—a village site—where all the specialized forms of flaked stones made from the blades were prepared for use. Here are found great numbers of the rude failures, duplicating every feature of the mysterious "paleolith" with which our museums are stocked, and exhibiting the same masterly quitting at just the point "where no further shaping was possible."^[1] Here we see the same boldly manipulated "cutting edge," the "flat bottom" and "high peak," and the same mysteriously weathered and disintegrated surfaces, so skillfully made, by a nice balancing of accidents,^[2] to tell the story of chronologic sequence in deposition.

Beside the failures, we have here, as on other quarry shop sites, the evidence of more advanced work, the wide, thick, defective blades, and many of the long, thin blades broken at or near the finishing point. Here, too, just back of the roughing-out shops, are the dwelling sites from which many specialized forms are obtained. The "Eskimo" type is fully represented as well as the ordinary spear point, the arrow point, and the perforator of our Indian. There is not a type of flake argillite known in the Delaware valley that may not be duplicated here on this modern Indian site, and this has been known by local archeologists for years. Why so little has been said about the matter is thus explained. Dr. Abbott, in 1890, discovering this site, and finding "typical paleolithic implements" (the ordinary ruder forms of rejects) among the refuse, was so entirely at a