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many arrowheads associated with mastodon 
bones in a spring at Afton, Indian Territory. 
This spring was investigated, and a few masto- 
don bones and flint arrowheads were found, 
but the latter were in a stratum just above the 
bones, although this was overlooked by the first 
diggers.* Koch reported finding charcoal and 
arrowheads so associated with mastodon bones 
that he inferred the animal to have been de- 
stroyed by fire and arrows after it became 
mired. It has been said that Koch could have 
had no object in disseminating this report, and 
hence that it may be credited, but he had just 
as much interest in doing this as he did in fab- 
ricating the Hydrarchus and the Missourium, 
and his testimony is not to be considered se- 
riously. It seems to be with the mastodon — 
much as it is with the sea-serpent ; the latter 7 
never appears to a naturalist, remains of the — 
former are never found by a trained observer 
* This locality has just been carefully investigated by Mr. 
W. H. Holmes of the United States National Museum who 
Sound bones of the mastodon and Southern Mammoth associated 
nith arrowheads. But he also found fresh bones of bison, 
horse, and wolf, shoning that these and the arrowheads had 
simply sunk to the level of the older deposit. 
