62 Phosphate Rocks of South Carolina, 
rows of some animal; and, should no more of such 
relics hereafter be found, our reputation as observers 
in the geological field would be affected. It was good 
advice and we took it. Though we certainly “were 
convinced against our will.” 
Night after night we studied and talked over these 
arrow heads and this stone hatchet. 
HUMAN BONES DISCOVERED. 
Not very long after finding the above named 
relics of human workmanship, and while engaged 
in our usual visits to the Ashley Bed, a bone was 
found projecting from the bluff, immediately in 
contact with the surface of the stony stratum (the 
Phosphate-rocks) ; we pulled it out, and behold a 
human bone! Without hesitation it was condemned 
as an “ accidental occupant” of quarters to which it 
had no right—geologically—and so we threw it into 
the river. Alas! we have lived to regret our temerity 
and rashness. A year after, a lower jaw bone with 
teeth was taken from the same bed, and we now have 
it in the Cabinet.* Subsequent events and discoveries 
show, conclusively, that the first discovered human 
bone was “in place,” and that the beds of the Post- 
Pleiocene, not only on the Ashley, but in France 
* Professor Kerr and Dr. Pratt, in 1867, discovered other human bones, 
(parts of a femur and tibia,) in the same bed, and from the same locality. 
These are also in our Cabinet in Charleston. 
