And the “ Great Carolina Marl Bed.” 61 
with the well known similar forms obtained from the 
Indian mounds of America, and attributed to the 
handiwork of its aborigines. But when found wxder 
the oak at the Marl pit, among the “ Marl rocks,” as 
they were then termed, (and very properly too, for they 
are indeed Marl rocks derived from the mother-bed of 
Eocene Marl,) every precaution was immediately 
taken to satisfy ourselves fully as to the possibility of 
their being of the same age as the “mound,” arrow 
heads and hatchets, but washed into a 
after ages, and now found mixed with the Marl rocks; 
” 
eullys Min 
(Phosphate-rocks,) and therefore accidental occupants 
of the place. 
After a careful study of everything connected with 
their discovery, the place and stratum in which they 
were found, and their remarkable forms, we were sat- 
isfied that they belonged to and were deposited in the 
same geological age to which the bones and teeth of 
the Mastodon, Elephant, Rhinoceros, Horse, and other 
land animals belong, and which are found associated 
with them in the same matrix or mother-bed of clay, 
which is of the Post-Pleiocene period, and which we 
have since designated as the PRE-HISTORIC AGE OF 
Man. 
Alas, for young students and their beautiful theo- 
ries! Professor Tuomey, about this time, visited the 
locality, examined the specimens and everything con- 
- nected with their discovery and exhumation, together 
with all the surrounding strata, and advised against 
their publication, as it was possible for them to have 
fallen into a hole at the foot of the tree, or the bur- 
