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than the stone implements of the drift-gravel of Abbeyville 

 and Amiens, or the relics furnished by the cave-dirt of Belgium 

 and France." * * Even this is not so remarkable as to be 

 beyond belief. 



The writer saw and examined the famous skull before it 

 was sent to Professor AVyman (the eminent craniologist), and 

 visited the locality where it was found. The skull was evi- 

 dently ancient. 



He has also in his collection in this city, casts made by him 

 from the original stone implements, which were undoubtedly 

 taken from the old river channel under Table Mountain, Tuol- 

 umne county, covered by about two hundred feet of basaltic 

 rock or lava, which had run down the river channel so long 

 ago that the face of the country has so changed that the hills 

 which kept the flow of lava in the channel have been eroded 

 and washed away, and their places occupied by the channels 

 of the present rivers, leaving the ancient river channel and its 

 overcapping lava bed, projecting above the present surface, 

 forming the famous Table Mountain. These relics differ ma- 

 terially from anything else seen by the writer, from any other* 

 locality. The originals were in his possession for some years, 

 and were by him placed in the Peabody Museum at Yale 

 College, where they now are. 



In relation to the last named relics, the Report of the Sec- 

 retary of the Smithsonian Institute for 1863 says: "Some of 

 the most important additions of the year to the stone series, 

 were included in a collection presented by Dr. L. G. Yates of 

 California. This collection embraced, in addition to a num- 

 ber of characteristic implements of the natives of California, 

 moulds of those found under the lava of Table Mountain, and 

 which formed the subject of an animated discussion at the 

 meeting of the American Association in Chicago last summer. 

 It is proposed to make casts from these moulds for distribu- 

 tion to the principal museums in this country and abroad." 



These relics show a very considerable advance toward the 

 perfection of the manufactures of the stone age, and we know 

 not how long a period has elapsed from the, first appearance 



