. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . e, andwith this building up of the plateau to a higherlevel there were also brought to it traces of manshandiwork. Of this there can be no doubt ago I endeavored to show from the distribu-tion of rude argillite implements of specializedforms, as arrow points and small blades, trimmedflakes and scrapers, that these objects were older,as a class, than jasper and quartz implements andweapons, and that pottery was made only in therudest way before flint chipping—jasper andquartz—was established. The more exhaustivel
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . e, andwith this building up of the plateau to a higherlevel there were also brought to it traces of manshandiwork. Of this there can be no doubt ago I endeavored to show from the distribu-tion of rude argillite implements of specializedforms, as arrow points and small blades, trimmedflakes and scrapers, that these objects were older,as a class, than jasper and quartz implements andweapons, and that pottery was made only in therudest way before flint chipping—jasper andquartz—was established. The more exhaustivelythis subject was followed up the proposition be-came more evidently true, and to-day it is unquali-fiedly confirmed by the results obtained from sys-tematically digging deeply over wide areas ofcountry, and the systematic and truly scientificgathering of quite a half a million of objects fash-ioned and used by early man in this river fact that argillite continued in use until thevery last does not affect this conclusion. There is 42 NEW JERSEY AS A COL. no clearer evidence in paleontology that one fos-siliferous stratum ante-dates another than thatthe maker of argillite artifacts of specializedshapes preceded the Indian as first known to Euro-peans. As the high land, now forty or more feet abovethe river and beyond the reach of its floods ofgreatest magnitude, was once continually over-flowed and gradually built up by the materials thewater spread upon it, it is evident that the condi-tions were materially different when such thingshappened from what now obtains, and the wholeconfiguration of the country to-day points to butthe one conclusion: that these plateau-buildingfloods occurred so long ago as when the riverflowed at a higher level and possessed a greatertransporting power than at present. This, it istrue, was long after the coarse gravel and hugebowlders were transported from the hillsides ofthe upper valley, but it was before the river wasconfined to it
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