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were no implements whatever found with the skeleton. Unfor- 

 tunately the lower jaw is missing, but most of the other parts of 

 the skeleton were found. A. careful search revealed no teeth. 

 During the following summer the Canadian Northern llailway laid 

 a track across the spot in my absence. 



I submitted this skeleton to Mr. Charles Hill Tout, who is well 

 known for his ethnological work in connection with the British 

 Association and who has made a special study of prehistoric man in 

 British Columbia, and I quote from him as follows : "It was the 

 skull of a mature person. All the sutures had coalesced. The type 

 is also markedly dolichocephalic, the cephalic index being about 

 seventy-five. In stature the individual was short, not much over 

 5 feet, and the ridges on the tibia or shin-bones are less sharp than 

 those of modern man." 



The bones are now in the hands of the specialist attached to the 

 Canadian Geological Survey for examination. The exact point of 

 discovery was about three hundred j^ards above the Tliompson River 

 Bridge, at the foot at Karaloops Lake, on the north side. It is about 

 a mile from Savone station on the C.P. Eailway. 



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Section showing position of skeleton in silts at Savonas, British Columbia. 



Briefly, the later geological history of this district is as follows. 

 During the Glacial period, the elevation was much greater than it is 

 now. At the end of that period, the land gradually subsided as the 

 ice receded. Dr. G. M. Dawson seems to think that it subsided to 

 a depth of 4,000 feet below the present level, but I venture to differ 

 as to that, and consider that 1,000 feet would be quite sufficient. After 

 that it was again uplifted to its present position. Many large 

 glaciers still remain in the country, and anyone who has travelled 

 much in the higher mountains will realize that a greater snowfall or 

 uplifting of the land would cause a great extension of the glaciers. 

 A very complete description of the White Silts is given by Dr. G. M. 

 Dawson, who named them, in vol. vii of the Canadian Geological 

 Survey Reports. From this I quote: "It is probable that we 

 may place the upper level of the Silt formation in this region 

 at about 2,500 feet, though it is still apparent that the more 

 important developments of the deposit lie below 1,700 feet. The 

 Silt deposits are found in this part of the interior plateau down to 



