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Other localities in El Dorado County where similar discoveries have been made and which may 

 simply be referred to without giving particulars arc : Kelsey's Diggings, a few miles north of 

 Spanish Flat ; Dry Creek, three miles west of Georgetown, where a large stone dish, or platter, 

 was found; Coloma; Georgetown. At the last-named place Mr. Gabb, the Paleontologist of the 

 Survey, saw a human femur imbedded in "cement"; it was in the possession of Mr. A. Hyatt, 

 the express agent. Eor some good and sufficient reason, the nature of which has escaped the 

 writer's memory, this find was not investigated further. 



Mr. Goodyear learned at Brownsville, from Mr. Eord, that near the head of Spanish Creek a 

 perfect mortar and pestle were once found in the gravel beneath the volcanic matter. According 

 to Mr. Eord, these implements were taken to Placerville, and were for a long time in the posses- 

 sion of a gentleman named Douglass. Farther investigations into this find were not made. 



PLACER COUNTY. 



At various times, between the years 1851 and 1864, quite a number of stone relics were found 

 at and near Gold Hill, in the different auriferous gravel deposits. The depths from which they 

 were taken varied from ten to twenty feet. The objects found were mortars of different forms and 

 sizes, large stone platters or dishes, and " other interesting things." One of these mortars, which 

 is made of granite, is in Mr. Voy's collection. It is sixteen inches high and twelve in circumfer- 

 ence i its weight is about twenty pounds. 



According to Mr. Voy, who is also the authority for the statements in the preceding paragraph, 

 stone implements were found, in 18G4, about a mile south of the town of Eorest Hill, at a depth of 

 about ten feet. One of the most interesting of these was a flat dish, or platter, worked out of hard 

 granite, and about eighteen inches in diameter. Similar discoveries have been made, as is stated, 

 at Byrd's Valley, a short distance below Michigan Bluff. 



The Missouri Tunnel runs from the DeviPs Canon southerly into the ridge between it and the 

 Middle Fork of the American River, a little above Yankee Jim's. This region has been described 

 in the preceding pages as deeply covered with volcanic materials. In this tunnel, under the lava, 

 two bones had been found, some thirteen years before Mr. Goodyear's visit to the locality, which 

 were pronounced by Dr. Eagan to bo human. One was said to be a leg bone ; of the character of 

 the other nothing was remembered. The above information was obtained by Mr. Goodyear from 

 Mr. Samuel Bowman, of whose intelligence and truthfulness the writer has received good accounts 

 from a personal friend well acquainted with him. Dr. Eagan was at that time one of the best 

 known physicians of the region. 



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NEVADA COUNTY. 



Mr. Voy collected a large amount of information in regard to the occurrence of implements in 

 the gravel diggings of Nevada, County. 



At Grass Valley, between the years 1853 and 18G4, numerous stone relics, such as mortars, 

 pestles, and grooved oval disks were found at various depths, ranging from fifteen to thirty feet 

 beneath the surface. Some of these implements are in the Voy Collection. 



In Myers's Ravine, about two miles northwest of Nevada City, stone mortars and other imple- 

 ments were found, in 1866, at depths of from ten to sixteen feet in the auriferous gravels. 



On Brush Creek, about two miles north of Nevada City, similar discoveries were made about the 

 year 1866. The same is reported from Sweetlands, about eight miles north of the last-mentioned 

 locality. 



BUTTE COUNTY. 



There seems to have been a great variety of stone implements found in the gravel mines of this 

 county at different times during the past twenty years. It is unnecessary to give the details, 



