Excerpt from Wampum: A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia The following pages constitute an Essay read before the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia in January 1868. It was in tended for publication in the second volume of the Transactions of the Society, but as the ap pearance of this volume has been unexpectedly delayed, it has been thought best to allow the Essay to appear separately. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.