houses remain- ing throughout the county. The oldest native stone structure yet standing is the Christian Herr dwelling, between Willow Street and Beaver Valley pike, not far from Big Spring and the Mennonite graveyard. It was built in 1719. A great wide chimney, with open fire-place, strengthens its

as found by me in central Lancaster county, have some of the shapes and general contour of such implements when gathered from old caves of Europe and primitive parts of Africa and Australia. Flint cutters are common in many lands in both hemispheres, reaching back to the earliest life of man. �As a