Yjjj POST-PLEIOCENE FOSSILS. 



geological period, leaves no room to doubt the former existence of the Horse on the American 

 continent, contemporaneously with the Mastodon and Megalonyx: and man probably was 

 his companion." 



Lieut. Michler in his report on the Pimos and Maricopas Indians, remarks:* "The former 

 are further advanced in the art of agriculture, and are surrounded with more comforts than 

 any uncivilized Indian tribe I have ever seen. Besides being great warriors, they are 

 good husbandmen and farmers, and work laboriously in the field. They are the owners of 

 fine horses and mules, fat oxen and milch cows, pigs and poultry, and are a wealthy class 

 of Indians. The Pimos consider themselves the regular descendants of the Aztecs, and 

 claim 'Montezuma' to have been of their tribe. One of their legends speaks of his leaving 

 them on horseback on his pilgrimage to found a new country." 



"The Indians of North America knew that the Mastodon had a trunk; a fact — though 

 the anatomist infers it from the bones of the skull — it is difficult to imagine them to be 

 acquainted with, except by tradition from those who had seen the living animal. 



"No evidence of man's presence has occurred older than the latest Tertiary deposits, 

 which insensibly merge into the alluvial. It seems certain that human remains have been 

 found in chronological association with those of animals long extinct, and there appears 

 no reasons to doubt that some species of animals, as the Irish Deer, the Moa of New Zea- 

 land, and the Dodo of the Mauritius, have disappeared from creation within a period of a 

 few centuries. "t 



EXTRACT FEOM THE PROCEEDINGS OP THE IMPERIAL SOCIETY OF EMULATION SEANCE, OF 



JUNE 23, 1859.t 



"For the past twelve years, the world of science has been occupied with the discovery of stones cut by the 

 hand of man, made by our honorable President, M. Boucher de Perthes, in the diluvium, and the deposits of 

 fossil bones, of which an account was given in 1841, in his work, "Antiquites Celtiques et Antediluviennes "§ 

 The existence of man, contemporaneously with the deluge, so often disputed, despite the proofs given in the 

 work just cited, has just received a signal confirmation. 



Mr. Joseph Prestwick, a member of the Royal Society, and of the Geological Society, of London, has visited 

 Abbeville and Amiens. 



After having examined the collection of M. Boucher de Perthes, Mr. Prestwick, with the assistance of the 

 Antiquarian Society of Picardy, caused large excavations to be made in the diluvial beds which surround these 



* Emory's Report on the D. S. and Mexican Boundary, p. 117. 

 t Gosse. Omphalos, p. 84. 



t Translated and published by Mr. Kinsing, Phila., 1859. 



§ In 2 vols., large 8vo., with IOC plates, containing 2000 figures, Paris, 1847. Copies can be seen in the Philadelphia Library, and 

 in the Astor Library, New York. 



