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were found two flint arrow heads of the most primitive type, imperfect in shape 
and barbed. A few pieces of charcoal were also found at the same time and 
place. Dr. Booth was fully aware of the importance of the discovery and tried 
to preserve everything found, but upon touching the skull it crumbled to dust, 
and some of the other bones broke into small pieces and partly crumbled away, 
but enough was preserved to fully establish the fact that they are human bones. 
Some fifteen or twenty days subsequent to the first finding, at a depth of 
twenty-four feet below the surface, other bones were found—a thigh bone and a 
portion of the vertebra, and several pieces of charred wood, the bones apparently 
belonging to the first found skeelton. In both cases the bones rested upon a 
fibrous stratum, suspected at the time to be a fragment of coarse matting. This. 
lay upon a floor of soft but solid iron ore, which retained the imprint of the 
fibers. 
Overlying the last found bones was a stratum of what appeared to be loam 
or sod, from two and a half to three inches thick, below which was a deposit of 
soft red hematite iron ore, lying upon two large boulders of hard ore standing on 
edge, standing at an angle of about forty-five degreés, the upper ends leaning 
against each other, thus forming a considerable cavity which was filled with blue 
specular and hard red ore and clay, lying upon a floor of solid red hematite. It 
was in this cavity that the bones, matting and charred wood were found, inter- 
mixed with ore. 
The indications are that the filled cavity had originally been a sort of cave,. 
and that the supposed matting was more probably a layer of twigs, rushes, or 
weeds, which the inhabitants of the cave had used as a bed, as the fiber marks 
cross each other irregularly. The ore bed in which the remains were found, and 
part of which seems to have formed after the period of human occupation of the 
cave, lies in the second (or saccharoidal) sandstone of the Lower Silurian.—Sczen- 
tific American. 
ME0S, NON WislS TUG IeleVULOSO etsy. 
ITS ASPECTS AS A PHILOSOPHY. 
W. H. MILLER, KANSAS CITY. 
Nature, as man finds himself situated in it, presents the aspects of infinite 
extension, infinite multiplicity of forms, infinite activity and changeableness, 
infinite constancy of continuance and of laws of continual change. It enters 
into his conceptions as absolute in itself, or as containing a principle that is 
absolute from whence it proceeds and by which its activity is governed by infinite 
constant and immutable laws. ‘Thus environed, man finds himself endowed with 
