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tions, at least, of these gravels descended. I was somewhat sur- 

 prised with the results, which proved so interesting and suggest- 

 ive that they may well be referred to in this place. In a railroad 

 cut recently made through morainal deposits near South Lebanon, 

 about eight miles north of Loveland, I found numerous pieces of 

 this brittle limestone, varying from minute bits_to masses a foot 

 or more in greatest dimension, showing traces of fracture and 

 flaking resembling somewhat closely those of the implement or 

 object- found by Dr. Metz at Loveland. Indeed, some of these 

 specimens are so well flaked that I would, under ordinary cir- 

 cumstances, not hesitate to call them artificial. In fact, all may 

 be artificial, although the shapes are often eccentric, and the 

 size, in cases, is greater than in any known flaked tool. It is a 

 significant fact that nearly all the stones found in the deposit are 

 covered with glacial striae, and some of the conchoidal faces of 

 the implement-like objects are scratched, through movements 

 of the ice. It is true that man may have lived or hunted on 

 or near the ice, and his tools or the refuse from their manufac- 

 ture may have been taken up by the ice, passing afterwards into 

 the moraine; but that they should enter the ice in numbers, and 

 so become striated through its movements, is highly improbable. 

 The Loveland specimen has, however, a more decidedly artificial 

 character than any of these, and were its inclusion in the gravels 

 fully verified, and were it not alone and practically unsupported 

 by other finds, it could well be accepted as important evidence 

 of glacial occupation by a stone-flaking people. 



Besides the Loveland finds. Dr. Metz obtained a specimen of 

 rudely flaked black chert from a cistern which he was sinking in 

 Madisonville, Ohio. It was found at the surface of, or slightly 

 imbedded in, gravel beneath a bed of silt eight feet thick. ^ 

 Dr. Metz is a careful observer, and it is hard to believe that he 

 would have permitted himself to be deceived although all must 



^ Putnam, F. W. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. XXIII, p. 242. 



Wright, G. F. Ice Age, pp. 530-532- 



Leverett, Frank. Am. Geologist, March 1893, p. 187. According to Mr. Leverett 

 it is not certain that these silts belong to the ice age, and if not, the find is no evi- 

 dence of glacial man, whatever else it may signify. 



