New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . snrface, andwith this bnilding np of the plateau to a higherlevel there were also br«:>ught to it traces of manshaniiiwork. Of this there can be no doubt ago I endeavored to show from the distribn-tion of rude argillite implements of sp»ecializedforms, as arrow points and small blades, trinmriflakes and scrai>ers. that these objects were a class, than jasper and quartz implements andweapons, and that pottery was made onlv in therudest way before flint chipping—^jasx*er andquartz—was establishe^i. Th
New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . snrface, andwith this bnilding np of the plateau to a higherlevel there were also br«:>ught to it traces of manshaniiiwork. Of this there can be no doubt ago I endeavored to show from the distribn-tion of rude argillite implements of sp»ecializedforms, as arrow points and small blades, trinmriflakes and scrai>ers. that these objects were a class, than jasper and quartz implements andweapons, and that pottery was made onlv in therudest way before flint chipping—^jasx*er andquartz—was establishe^i. 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 obtaineii 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 theverv 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 wholeconflguration 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 ri
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