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a land slip would have buried a surface implement probably lower 

 than six or seven feet, or it may have fallen into the hollow left by 

 an uprooted forest tree. 



We have no right to assume that mound-builders (Indians) were 

 the Aborigines of America. Indeed, it seems more likely they were 

 recent immigrants from Asia by way of Behring Straits. Look to 

 the burial mounds recently opened in the Canadian North-West. The 

 bark in which the crumbling bones were enveloped was so complete- 

 ly preserved as to be easily recognized. What we want to know is 

 something regarding the real Aborigines — some one who can throw 

 light on the ancient inhabitants of Yucatan, the Pigmies (smaller 

 than the race of dwarfs in Central Africa), whose diminutive arches, 

 temples, houses and tombs are still existing. In a paper on " Man 

 and the Glacial Period," by Professor Warren Upham, the following 

 invitation occurs : " Every worker who comes into this field and 

 devotes his spare time to glacial explorations and studies as Prof. 

 Wright, deserves the hearty welcome of all fellow-glacialists." 

 This is the only excuse I can offer for inflicting this paper on the 

 Section, which possesses, in the present state of things, this only 

 merit, viz., it is fion-conimittai. But, respecting the " Paleoliths " of 

 America and Europe, probably ninety-nine per cent, of those I have 

 seen were merely rejected coras or damaged implements, such as one 

 can obtain in the vicinity of any modern Indian camping-ground of 

 less than a century ago. 



I recently received from Arizona a few small " bird arrow-points," 

 so called, made from onyx, agates, etc. I cannot believe these 

 exquisite little implements were formed by Turanian red men. I 

 would be more inclined to attribute their manufacture to a people 

 more advanced in civilization — the Mayas, for instance. I have not 

 heard they were ever discovered in northern burial mounds, and I 

 do not recollect that they are recorded as found in southern ones, 

 but, if so, it would, probably, not be of much importance. 



