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which characterizes the Tuscarawas River everywhere below the 

 glacial boundary. Additional interest is given to this discovery 

 by the fact that it is from one of the valleys to which I had 

 directed attention several years before as likely to yield such 

 discoveries. 



The other most important facts bearing on the antiquity of 

 man come from the Pacific coast, and perhaps have only an indi- 

 rect connection with the Glacial period ; but as their connection 



Fig. 1. The Smaller is the Pal-eolith from Newcomerstown, the Larger from Amiens 



(face view). 



with the period must stand or fall with the facts collected some 

 years ago by Prof. Whitney, I will allude to them here. 



In the autumn of 1889, Mr. Charles Francis Adams, then Presi- 

 dent of the Union Pacific Railroad, brought to my notice a small 

 clay image, an inch and a half in length, which had been found 

 by Mr. M. A. Kurtz while boring an artesian well at Nampa, Ada 

 County, Idaho. The image was of slightly baked clay, incrusted 

 in part with a coating of red oxide of iron, which indicated con- 

 siderable age, and came up in the sand-pump from a depth of three 



