Yet while the aspects of the World are most unsatispurely historical progress of man in the New attended by much more factory, anthropological studies proper are favorable conditions in the Americas than in Europe. In the Old World, occcupied and thickly settled for many historic ages by man in the various stages of civilized development, most of the vestiges of prehistoric man have been destroyed by the people; whereas these still have widespread existence in the New. in the immediate section of the country to which the County of Westchester belongs such traces of the ancient inhabitants as have boon found are in no manner reducible to system. There are no venany of the curious " mounds " erable monumental ruins, nor are there occupied by the Indians at the of the west. Various sites of villages also of some of their as known, are Europeans the of arrival the of time forts and burial -rounds. Great heaps of oyster and clam shells here of their abiding places. and there on tin'' coast remain as landmarks Asido from such features, which belong to ordinary historical association rather than to the department of archaeological knowledge, few Several years ago much was noteworthv "finds" have been made.

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made in the New York City newspaper press of certain excavations by Mr. Alexander C. Chenoweth, at Inwood, on Manhattan Island, a short distance below Spuyten Duyvil. Mr. Chenoweth unearthed a variety of interesting objects, including Indian skeletons, hearthstones blackened by lire, implements, and utensils. There can be no doubt that these remains were from a period antedating the European discovery. But they possessed no importance beyond that fact. With all the other traces of the more ancient inregeneral inT this found been habitants which have VASE FOUND • ,, , ,, , , , . -, . . inwood.