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contrary, it would have been even more of a surprise to 

 find it in the hands of these children than to find it among 

 the prehistoric deposits on the Pacific coast. 



To most well-informed people it is sufficient to know 

 that no less high authorities than Mr. Charles Francis 

 Adams and Mr. G. M. Gumming, General Manager for 

 the Union Pacific line for that district, carefully inves- 

 tigated the evidence at the time of the discovery, and, 

 knowing the parties, were entirely satisfied with its suffi- 

 ciency. It was also subjected to careful examination by 

 Professor F. W. Putnam, who discerned, in a deposit of an 

 oxide of iron on various parts of the image, indubitable 

 evidence that it was a relic which had lain for a long time 

 in some such condition as was assigned to it in the bottom 

 of the well — all of which is detailed in the papers re- 

 ferred to below, on page 297. 



Finally, the discovery, both in its character and con- 

 ditions, is in so many respects analogous to those made 

 under Table Mountain, near Sonora, Cal. (described on 

 pages 294-297), that the evidence of one locality adds 

 cumulative force to that of the other. The strata under- 

 neath the lava in which these objects were found are all 

 indirectly, but pretty certainly, connected with the Glacial 

 period.* No student of glacial archaeology, therefore, can 

 hereafter afford to disregard these facts from the Pacific 

 coast. 



Oberlin, Ohio, June 2, 1894- 



* See below, p. 349. 



