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caves in the south of France. In 1841, M. Boucher de 

 Perthes published to the world an account of human re- 

 mains found buried in the valley of the Somme, near Abbe- 

 ville, in company with the bones of extinct species of 

 quadrupeds. In 1842 M. Melleville reaffirmed these dis- 

 coveries, and in 1844 M. Aymard presented new facts dis- 

 closed by explorations upon the slope of the mountain of 

 La Denise, near Puy. In 1853 Dr. Rigollot announced the 

 discovery at St. Acheul, near Amiens, of hatchets and arti- 

 cles in cut stone, found imbedded in the same gravel de- 

 posit with the fossil remains of the hairy elephant, rhinoce- 

 ros, and extinct ox. Similar discoveries have been report- 

 ed from Spain, Italy, Greece, Syria, and England. In the 

 United States we detect also some evidences of the coex- 

 istence of man and extinct species of quadrupeds. Dr. 

 Koch, the reconstructor of the Tertiary Zeuglodon, insisted 

 Ions; agjo that he had found in Missouri such an association 

 of mastodon and Indian remains as to prove that the two 

 had lived contenrporaneously. I have myself observed the 

 bones of the mastodon and elephant imbedded in peat at 

 depths so shallow that I could readily believe the animals 

 to have occupied the country during its possession by the 

 Indian; and gave publication to this conviction in 1862. 

 More recently, Professor Holmes, of Charleston, has in- 

 formed the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 

 that he finds upon the banks of the Ashley River a remark- 

 able conglomeration of fossil remains in deposits of post- 

 tertiary age. Remains of the hog, the horse, and other 

 animals of recent date, together with human bones, stone 

 arrow-heads, hatchets, and fragments of pottery, are there 

 lying mingled with the bones of the mastodon and extinct 

 gigantic lizards. 



Contemporary with these American animals, but not yet 

 found associated in their remains with the relics of the hu- 



