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ments having been buried where they were found. Of the purposed interment 

 of those in the Ohio mounds no doubt can be entertained ; and though a great 

 antiquity has been ascribed to the mounds, in comparison with any works of the 

 known races of the continent, no one will dream of assigning them to a period 

 bearing any relation to that of the Drift Folk of Abbeville or Hoxne. Here, 

 then, we find illustrations of one of the commonest types of the drift imple- 

 ments deposited in vast numbers under the earthworks of this remarkable pre- 

 historic race of the New "World, and found even in its regular sepulchral mounds. 

 If one of the Racine discs in the Smithsonian collection be compared with the 

 example from 



Fiff. IL — LEWiSTON FLINT IMPLEMENTS. 



the valley of the Somme, selected by Mr. Evans to illustrate his third class of 

 oval or almond-shaped implements,* they will be seen to correspond so closely 

 that either might be selected as the illustration of the type. 



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