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have sufficient influence to arrest the progress of that /a/se 
scientific teaching existing in public schools and universities 
at present. 
A short time since the writer called the attention of the sec- 
tion to the discovery in Egypt of large numbers of stone and 
other implements which clearly proved how mistaken the good 
people were who asserted such a thing as a Stone Age was 
utterly unknown then. 
This is proved to be untenable by American, German and 
British Archzeologists who were excavating far apart. If any 
additional evidence was required to show that in the far off 
days the inhabitants of that highly civilized region were 
unacquainted with metals, the extract from the report of the 
French explorer seems sufficient to convince the most sceptical 
on the point. The French Government has published the first 
volume of the Memoirs of Jacques de Morgan which deals 
with his explorations for the site of the city of Susa. Mr. de 
Morgan ran a series of tunnels into the mound at various levels 
and found traces of five distinct settlements. One of these he 
found to be the site of the Greco-Parthian City from 200 to 300 
B. C., beneath, the Persian which existed between 300 to 500 
B. C., and below this, the older city which was destroyed in 
640 B.C. In this, was obtained a cylinder of Nebuchadnezzar 
the Great. The Memoirs go to show brick records of the 
Cassite rulers, this city dates probably from 1800 B. C., when 
they conquered Babylon, inscriptions of a much older date in 
one chamber, the most important of which was a fine stile of 
Naram-Sin, son of Sargon, who reigned 3880 B. C. 
Further down, Mr. de Morgan found traces of a wooden 
city, which had been destroyed by fire, this contained stone 
Maces, a flint sickle and a hand made pottery, no metal, no 
inscriptions. Still lower, thirty feet above the virgin soil, there 
was found an older settlement containing rude flint implements 
and pottery. The date of these two primitive settlements 
Mr. de Morgan is unable to determine, and the term regarding 
the flint implements is too vague to enable us to ascertain 
whether the discoverer intended to convey the impression that 
they belonged to a Paleeolithic not a Neolithic period. 
