, strange to say,has become the philosopher's stone of geographers. They have searched the Orient with a view of finding an available quarter in which to locate it, but at each move confusion becomes worse confounded, and in hopeless de- spair they leave it to be located any- where, except, of course, on

other archaeological specimens and minerals. In this regular manner, from week to week, traversing miles of local terri- tory, many discoveries were made. A number of these findings, with personal impressions, are here presented for permanent record in The Lancaster County Historical Society's

INDIAN TRIBES OF LANCASTER COUNTY. The names and the history of the In- dian tribes who have dwelt within the boundaries of Lancaster county during the historic period present a most prolific field for conjecture, doubt and confusion. I have within a week examined many pages of records and the

. Certain coincidences connected with this celebration, perhaps, justify the former; for it so happened that it was the local Chair- man's great grandfather, a life long missionary among the Indians who had charge of a band of Delawares which for safe keeping against the frenzied Paxton Boys were lodged in