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Creek, Coloma, Georgetown, Brownsville; in Placer poem near 
Gold Hill, Forest Hill, Byrd’s Valley, Missouri Tunnel; in Nevada 
County, at Grass Valley, Myer’s Ravine, Brush Creek; in Butt 
County, at Cherokee ; also in Siskiyou and Trinity Counties, locali- 
ties not mentioned. 
Human bones are reported from Tuolumne and Calaveras 
Counties. (1.) Under Table Mountain, Tuolumne County, 3 
ton Society of Natural History, for October 7, 1857, the same 
locality affording also a Mastodon’s tooth and a “large —_ 
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Akey related to him a discovery of a complete human skeleton 
Messrs. Mattison & Co., on Bald Mountain, near Altaville and 
feet. Professor Whitney brings forward the testimony of Mr 
Scribner and also of Dr. Jones; and says, “ We have the inde- 
pendent testimony of three witnesses, two of whom were prev 
ously known to the writer as men of intelligence and veracity, 
while in regard my the third there is no reason for doubting bis 
genuineness of the find. No motive for deception on the part of 
Mr. Mattison can be discovered, while the appearance of the skull 
smasteamae strong, though silent, testimony to the correctness of 
~ Dr. Wyman’s report, _— now well known, stated that oo 
|; snull presents no signs of having belonged to an inferior tace- 
Tn its breadth it a: with the ae crania from California, 
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