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[Illustration: FIG. 1.--The Lenape Stone--(actual size)--Aboriginal
picture representing Indians fighting the Hairy Mammoth--discovered in
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1872 and 1881.]




     THE LENAPE STONE
           OR
 THE INDIAN AND THE MAMMOTH

            BY
        H. C. MERCER

     NEW YORK & LONDON
    G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
  The Knickerbocker Press
           1885


       COPYRIGHT BY
       H. C. MERCER
           1885

          Press of
     G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
          New York




PREFACE.

In claiming an impartial examination of so extraordinary a carving as
the "Lenape Stone" at the hands of archaeologists, the writer has had
several difficulties to contend with.

_First_, The fact that the carving is quite unique, it being the first
aboriginal _carving_ of the mammoth thus far claimed to have been
discovered in North America.

_Second_, That no "scientific observer" was present at the discovery.

_Third_, That since its discovery the Stone has been several times
cleaned, and that thereby many geological tests of its authenticity
have been rendered impossible.

_Fourth_, That within the last few years, and particularly in
Philadelphia, serious frauds