200 G. F. BECKER — ANTIQUITIES FROM TABLE MOUNTAIN. 



Altogether, these circumstances seem strongly confirmatory of the genuine- 

 ness of the object. Mrs. Darwin was a tourist on her way from the Yosemite, 

 and evidently neither she nor Mr. McTarnahan had set any special impor- 

 tance upon the geological position in which the mortar was found. Mr. 

 McTarnahan is a young man, about twenty-five, and had never heard of the 

 discoveries reported by Dr. Snell in the Valentine shaft, and evidently had 

 been totally unimpressed by the archaeological discussions with reference to 

 that region ; so that the evidence seems to me of a very high order. 



