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And the “ Great Carolina Marl Bed.” 63 
Switzerland, and other European countries, contain 
human bones associated with the remains of extinct 
animals and relics of human workmanship, proving 
most conclusively that the Carolina specimens were 
found “in place,” and as the European discoveries 
were made in 1854 and ours in 1844, to South Caro- 
lina should be awarded the honor of the first dis- 
covery, and the determination of the Paleontological 
age of the Post-Pleiocene Beds. It “stamps” it, as 
the PRE-HISTORIC AGE OF MAv, the connecting link be- 
tween the Tertiary and the Recent age, the true 
Quarternary period in its geological history. 
COPROEIMMES (@) IN’ ANPOCKE EF 
Whilst engaged manufacturing Saltpetre at Ashley 
Ferry, on the west bank of the River, during the late 
Confederate War, the lime or calcareous earth neces- 
sary in such operations, was obtained by sinking pits 
into the Eocene Marl-bed. 
Upon the removal of four or five feet of the upper 
layers, the workmen discovered in one part of a pit 
a number of oddly shaped nodules, resembling some- 
what the Marl stones (Phosphate-rocks) found in 
the stratum above the Marl, but more cylindrical in 
form and not perforated, and having their exterior 
polished as though each individual specimen had 
received a coat of varnish; they appeared to have 
been deposited in a large cavern or ‘“ pocket” in the 
Marl bed. 
