The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-11-09
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DEL. WATER GAP, Oct II, 1855.
This delightful retreat is even more
beautiful in the "sad melancholy days"
of autumn than amid the sweltering of
the summer solistice. The changing fol-
iage as bright and beautiful beyond the
power of descriptive language. In these
warm and glorious October days, with
cloudlesS sky and genial atmosphere, how
inexpressibly great the relief to fee the
crowded city and climb these gloriously
tinted mountains, or drive through these
quiet and fertile valleys amid scenes in
the highest degree picturesque.
The Gap has been so often described
in your columns that most readers are
familiar with its general features To
those, however, who have visited it for
nearly thirty years, Gas one of your pro-
minent citizens, now here with his family,
has DONE new attractions constantly op-
en- before them. If as a summer resort
it is considered equal to any, surely as an
autumnal retreat, where the invalid or
/ pleasure seeker may come to renew life
for the rigors of winter, no place within
the whole compass Of my knowledge can
at all equal the Delaware Water Cap
The atmosphere is peculiarly pure and
invi gorating. As physician, can re-
commend visit to this locality for deli
cate persons as one presenting almost GER
tain promises Of relief
/ A portion of the company now pleas
antly sojourniDg here treated themselves
to-day to an excursion somewhat different
from climbing Mount Minci, Prospect
Rock, the Indian Ladder, or even reyel-
ling at that crystal fount, Rehecca's
Well, CIR that still more beautiful spot,
/ Caldero Falls They visited and explor-
ed an Indian cemetery, where those who
lived and loved, warred and hunted, in
long anterior days, have lain in quiet and
until recently undisturbed repose.
The site of this early cemetery is on
the point of an elevated dilnial plain "a
bove the mouth of Drodhead's creek
The plateau is about ninety feet above
the river level, and embraces perhaps
four acres. The view is very fine, COM
manding the Delaware, Shawnee Island,
Cherry Valley, and the superb scenery
along the outlying arms of the grand old
Kittatinny. The nomadic tribes who oc-
cupied these beautiful and fertile valleys
exhibited faultless taste in selecting the
spot they did fer the repose of their kind
red
OF the wild tribes who once piled the
light canoe Oh the MaccariskittaDe and
hunted their game along the Mcenesnk.
we have positive information of the Sha-
wanees and Lenni Lennapes, or Della
wares. The tawny warriors-titans of
a dark and mystic race-have left here
the impress of their great and imperisha-
able names. Mountain: valley, river and
purling brook bear the record of many
stalworth brave.
Various localities OF interest are poin-
ted ont as the sites of Indian villages and
burial grounds but of what particular
tribe or nation not even tradition or -le
geudary song can tell. One Of these early
cemeteries has hong been regarded with
interest by visitors to The Gap and resi-
dents of the neigbborhood. In vain,
however, did those desirous of exploring
it apply for permission to the proprietor
Of the soil But the love Of gain proved
stronger than dread Of superstltious awe,
and few years since certain parties met,
not having the fear of Mr.. Zimmerman
or ghouls or goblins before their eyes,
under the cover Of night and a. dense
young forest, perpetrated that which men
Of science had Intellectually attempted
The night despoiers had roughly but
surely done the work Of exhumation In
serveral of these interesting memorials of
the dead. The parties who had despoil-
ed the graves were actuated by a single
motive-gain. They hoped to secure val
liable relics, which could be sold to cur
isity gathers from the cities. Some of
these ill., got gains were offered to gentle
men Of intelligence and prodity whom [
have seen, who declined to purchase
/ Others, however, in quest of "curiosties'
did buy. 1t may not positively be known
what articles have been taken from the
despoied graves, have been informed
that among the articles found was finely
wrought stone pipe.
With this depression, | will give briei
account of out operations to-day.
/ We. found the cemetery composed o.
numerous ''graves" in close proximity tc
one another. These were scarcely dis
tinguishable, so slight is the elevation
Each grave is encircled by trench, and
: a group of some half dozen had eViden
/ tly been surrounded by gravel ditch
, The circumvalation was quite distinct.
Selecting an undisturbed spot, we pu
couple of stout men to work. Remov
ing the soil, we were convinced human
agency had been at work Instead o
the gravel which marks the diluvial, We
found coarse yellow sand, internlngie(
with clay. At the depth Of about two
( and half feet, we found anulna, or some
r other parts of human frame. The skel
etou was in tolerable preservation. Ih'
Uranium is in good condition, with tn
a Of tho rIuht sinner