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twentieth of the deposit, and of gravel, sand and calcareous 

 powder. 



There were, in places, indications of rude lenticular bedding 

 of these materials with a pretty urliform general inclination 

 toward the channel of the river. The appearance of newness 

 exhibited by these deposits was wonderful ; the surfaces of the 

 stones were smooth and clean, and many of the interspaces were 

 open as if formed but 3'esterday. A closer examination showed, 

 however, that this appearance of newness was partly due to the 

 fact that the waters charged with calcareous matter penetrated 

 the superficial beds, partially setting the constituent parts and 

 in a measure sealing the apertures, thus preventing the com- 

 plete settling and filling that otherwise would have taken place. 

 The constitution and conditions were pretty uniform through- 

 out the section, save at the top where there was a deposit from 

 two to four feet deep of ferruginous sandy loam, containing some 

 fragments, pebbles and bowlders of several varieties of stone. 



After three visits, and the most careful but entirely fruitless 

 search for relics of art from bottom to top of the gravel walls, 

 I found m3'self wondering whether there had not been some mis- 

 take, whether the objects found were really tools, or whether the 

 collector had not mistaken materials descended from the surface 

 deposits for gravel in place. It is unfortunate that the statements 

 of collectors in such cases, correct or incorrect, cannot readily be 

 subjected to competent tests of verity ; we must be content 

 with hedging them about with all available restrictions in the 

 way of negative evidence. 



Having, during the first visit, examined the site at some 

 length, we proceeded to the ofifice of Dr. Metz, in Madisonville, 

 and were shown two objects obtained from the pit at a depth of 

 about twenty -five feet beneath the surface. The smaller of 

 these, a dark flattish piece of cherty, slightly water-worn stone, 

 was rudely flaked along one edge, but the evidence of design 

 was not at all convincing, and it seems useless to place the speci- 

 men in evidence. The other object was apparently a work of 

 art, exhibiting decided indications of design. It was found in 



