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iter finds a mine timbered aud smoked. He cannot fully acquaint himself 

 with the ground, and he is usually unfamiliar with tricks. It is therefore an 

 argument in favor of the authenticity of implements that they have been 

 found by miners. In short, there is, in my opinion, no escape from the con- 

 clusion that the implements mentioned in Mr. Neale's statement actually 

 occurred near the bottom of the gravels, and that they were deposited where 

 they were found at the same time with the adjoining pebbles aud matrix. 



Mr. King's Discovery. -T^Auother unpublished discovery has also been made 

 in these gravels which will be in so far more satisfactory to the members of 

 this Society that the discoverer is well known personally to most of them 



Figure 1. — Broken Pestle from Auriferous Gravels. One-half natural size. 



and by reputation to every geologist. In the spring of 1869 Mr. Clarence 

 King visited the portion of the Table mountain which lies a couple of miles 

 southeast of Tuttletown, and therefore near Rawhide camp, to search for 

 fossils in the auriferous gravels. At one point, close to the high bluff of 

 basalt capping, a recent wash had swept away all talus and exposed the 

 underlying compact, hard, auriferous gravel beds, which were beyond all 

 question in place. In examining this exposure for fossils he observed a frac- 

 tured end of what appeared to be a cylindrical mass of stone. This mass he 



