198 C. M. Wallace— Flint-implements frmi the 



forms the extreme or turning point of the Richmond terrace. 

 The height of the gravel-bed above the tide is forty feet or 



A few days later I inspected alone the Richmond terrace on 

 its bluff-side, near the Dock, from which I have received some 

 of the most interesting relics of the Quaternary man of Vir- 

 ginia. The order of the formation at this point appears to be : 

 Feet. 



1. Brick-earth underlying grayish clay, 9 



2. Rounded gravel, reddish hue, ._ .-. 4 



3. Deposit of fine bluish sand, 12 



4. Bed of gravel and bluish pebbles, 4 



6. Alternate seams of compacted sand, gray and 



yellow, above the level of base of e 



Depth of formation as far as known, 33 



The brick-earth of this section of the terrace has been topped 

 off to allow of the extension of Gary street, and the natural 

 wall has been pushed back, so to speak, as much as fifty feet 

 or more, to make room for the foundation of the York River 

 Railroad Station. From the surface of the lower gravel bed, I 

 extracted several worked flints, two of which closely resemble 

 those of the European Drifts. A remarkable feature of the 

 lower seam of gravel is the presence in large numbers of the 

 pebbles from which the implements for the most part appear 

 to have been fashioned. 



One of them is somewhat like an implement from the Recul- 

 ver Pits, a sketch of which may be seen at page 534 of Mr. 

 John Evans's elaborate work on The Ancient Stone Implements 

 of Great Britain. The other is of lanceolate form, and will be 

 readily recognized by those familiar with the relics of the Caves 

 and Drifts of the old world. It is much worn by long associa- 

 tion with the older gravels. It was probably used as a scraper. 



Deeming such discoveries of interest to the scientific world, 

 I lost no time in reaching its ear, through the medium of Pro- 

 fessor Spencer F. Baird, who very readily acknowledged my 

 labors, in the most cordial and encouraging way. 



I have extended my inquiries farther away from the river, 

 with continued success. The Great Upper Southside Terrace 

 already referred to, has been recently explored by me, and 

 found to contain worked pebbles of the same general charac- 

 ter as those derived from the high-level gravels on either 

 side of James River. 



An excavation eight feet deep has been made on the in- 

 ward slope of this old river-shore disclosing fine and coarse 

 gravel intermixed with reddish clay. The field of the surface 

 T.-1 — .1 • _.• 1 ^ afforded many similarly worked peb- 



