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terrace of glacial gravel which lines the margin of the Tuscarawas 

 valley. Mr. Mills was not aware of the importance of this dis- 

 covery until meeting with me some months later, when he 

 described the situation to me, and soon after sent the implement 

 for examination. In company with Judge C. C. Baldwin, Presi- 

 dent of the Western Reserve Historical Society, and- several 

 others, a visit was made to Mr. Mills, and we carefully examined 

 the gravel-pit in which the implement occurred, and collected 

 evidence which was abundant to corroborate all his statements. 

 The implement in question is made from a peculiar flint which is 

 found in the Lower Mercer limestone, of which there are out- 

 crops a few miles distant ; and it resembles in so many ways the 

 typical implements found by Boucher de Perthes, at Abbeville, 

 that, except for the difference in the material from which it is 

 made, it would be impossible to distinguish it from them. The 

 similarity of pattern is too minute to have originated except from 

 imitation."^ 



In another place Dr. Wright gives a statement of Mr. Mills 

 in regard to the specimen, from which I quote the following 

 additional details : "While examining the different strata of the 

 gravel, I found the specimen that you have before you fifteen 

 feet from the surface of the terrace. The bank was almost per- 

 pendicular at this time, exposing a front of about twenty feet. 

 The small part of the bank was in place in the side of the terrace, 

 until I struck it with my walking-cane, when a space of about 

 six feet in length by two feet in height tumbled down, exposing 

 to view the specimen. At first I recognized the peculiar shape 

 and glossy appearance of the specimen, such as were character- 

 istic of paleolithic specimens described to me by Professor 

 Edward Orton, while I was a student at the Ohio State Univer- 

 sity."^ Mr. Mills has, I believe, published nothing save through 

 Professor Wright, and we must therefore take the above as the 

 authoritative statements of the finding. A re-statement embody- 

 ing additional minor details and placing the evidence fully and 



^Wright, G. F. "Man and the Glacial Period," p. 251. 



^Wright, G. F. Report of Western Reserve Historical Society, Dec. 12, 1890. 



