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toric countries to tell when the Iron began and when the Bronze prevailed, and 

 so, too, when the Bronze began and the Stone prevailed. 



As to the pre-historic Egyptians, or Chaldeans, no one, to my knowledge, 

 claims that there was a pre-historic age with these nations which can be traced 

 separately from the historic, though in India this is the case, and probably may 

 be in Persia. Troy, you know, had its various ages, as did Judea; but the Stone 

 and Bronze are wonderfully mixed up. , 



I think Quatrefages is right as to Europe. The singular fact about America 

 is that the -highest state and order of man, so far as discovered, is the earliest. 

 The auriferous gravels only confirm my position on that point, and the "missing 

 link " is all bosh. Tertiary man may be the missing link, but produce him before 

 you tell what he is. 



PROF. O. T. MASON, COLUMBIAN COLLEGE. 



And Prof. O. T. Mason answers it thus : 



Columbian College, D. C, January 14, 1880. 



The opinions of archaeologists are so divided as to the continuity of man in 

 any portion of Europe, that it is best to hold our own in abeyance for more light. 

 The craniologists rely upon certain characteristics to determine the question of 

 race, and wherever these marks are found the race is forthcoming. If this be 

 true — if the crania were all found in the exact geological environment from which 

 they profess to have come, if the stratigraphical relations' of quaternary beds are 

 accurately known, and if certain cranial marks are the sure indications of certain 

 races — then we may say something about the sequence of pre-historic tribes on a 

 given area. 



RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN ADAMS COUNTY, 



OHIO.* 



The Ohio Valley, and this immediate section in particular, is rich in remains of 

 that wonderful prehistoric race, the evidences of whose civilization have been per- 

 petuated in those curious pieces of engineering from which we derive the euphon- 

 ious name " Mound Builders," given them by archaeologists. Within the past few 

 days wonderful discoveries have been made in this vicinity, which open up a new 

 chapter in the history of this remarkable race, and throw much light upon their 

 manner of living, their social nature, and their physical character. In different 

 sections of the world, at different periods of its history, there have been found the 

 remains of an enormous fauna and flora, and of a gigantic race of men. So rare 

 and far apart have been these discoveries, however, that we have Loked upon 

 historical accounts of them as cleverly constructed pieces of fiction, and been loth 

 to believe that there ever existed a race of men able to battle with the savage 

 mastodon or the fierce megatherium. It remains for Adams County to come for- 



* The statements in this article are very remarkable, but they are vouched for by a friend in whom we 

 have great confidence. — Ed. 



