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Show Important Arrlm logical IMwnerf. I kiladttphi-t lrtu Tho recent dlcoery of jrehUtorlo copper Implements on the sit of an auclent Indlau TllUgo on Htlll Pond creek, near llittirtoii, Md., will bu recognized a au lmortaDt ranlrllu tlon to American nrchrojlogy. They furnish another link In the chain of evidence In support of the belli f that even among the remote tribes there exited a syatem of Intertribal trade, The Implement In question, two lu number, were made from plaits of native na-tive colter from tho shores of Lake Huperlor, moru than a thousand miles from Hettcrlon. Thu more Important cbject Is ar-iarhead, tho other ha somewhat the ahape of an fir, but 1 fancy was used na bu hoe. The spearheud Is a remarkable example ex-ample of prthlalorlc metal work. It ha a double culling odge like a potnird. which lt reeu)b!es, und the ridge line dividing the two ii In en Is as accurate as If wrought by a skilled Blullleld cutter. It seems almost al-most Incredible that it could have been the work or an Iudla hundreds of y i rtrv, Mfrhaps, before ho camo In contact con-tact Willi a white mau. It measure eight luchra long aud two aud one-half one-half Inches tu 1U Mldeat part, nnd the blade Is barbed at tho point. Au In-(enlous In-(enlous fialure 1 the small shank which I havo endeavored to figure. On each side there are four small I lunl teeth like those of a comb, evidently made to Iniure greater security lu haftltigtt. The spearhead looks for all the world like thofte of brouzu from ancli nt Homo auvhaa have beeu excavated I hero at Pom i I and I venture to say that, if an American counterpart were ex-hlllted ex-hlllted with them, only an expert could dlstluguhdi It from Iho others. 'I ho lines aro uat a graceful, und the workmanship a flue, although we know that the alforlglnes were unacquainted unac-quainted with the art of smelting and hammered the metal Into shspu In its natural slate. The hoe Is (jutte a plain too), four nnd adialf Indus long and lour huhe wide, aud a ijusrter of an Inch thick, I he deserted village where the Implements Im-plements were lound has auolher attraction at-traction for the archunloglsl in the shape of a vast shell mound, whose magnitude and coniequcnt activity cannot fall tn Impress the observer. It takes rank at once a one of tho largest larg-est north of Florida One part of It ahuts on Htlll Pond Creek, wherauu excavation ha been made lo a dc th of sixteen feet without resohlug the bottom. bot-tom. Thesjttarhead and tho ax or hoo weru dug up, together with some human banes, tint beyond the lino of shells. The whole locality is an Interesting Inter-esting one and deworve careful examination, ex-amination, which Mr. Francis Jordon, Jr., or the Philadelphia Antiquarian society, Is glvlgu lt. |