Excerpt from Ten Years' Diggings in Lenâpè Land: 1901-1911It is, therefore, when we enter the archaeological field, like going from darkness into light, from a prison into freedom, from error into truth. T'ime here is a stranger in a strange land. It can make no demands but we may laugh at them. An archaeologist is a free man. He. Has facts only as his companions, and his sole duty is to record their relationship. Ten or ten thousand are mere scribblings on a school-boy's slate, hieroglyphics for pedagogues to ponder over but out in the open air, where, for problems, we have rocks and rivers, hills and dales, with sand, clay and gravel, instead of desks and black-boards, pens and text-books, the facts con-front you and invite inspection, instead of bewildering suggestions, children of school-men and their predecessors, the hermit, monk and philosopher.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.