[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The article was highly prized After the discovery, the Dutch introduced as an ornament, and as such constituted an the lathe in its manufacture, polished and object of traffic between the sea coast and perforated it with exactness, and soon had the interior tribes. It was worn around the the monopoly of the trade. The princi-neck; also as an edging for certain pieces pal place of its manufacture was at Hack-of their garments; and when these strings ensak, in New Jersey. The principal were united, they formed the broad deposit of sea-shells was Long Island, wampum belts by which solemn public where the extensive shell banks left by transactions were commemorated. As a the Indians, in which it is difficult to substitute for gold and silver coin, its price find a whole shell, show the immense was fixed by law. Three purple beads of quantities that were manufactured. O^ HUDSON'S RWER. 27 They were not skilled in the practice of medicines, notwith standing the general belief on that subject. They knew how