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the gravel, and there, just below the surface of the gravel, 

 the implement referred to was found. There is no chance 

 for it to have been covered by any slide, for the plain is ex- 

 tensive and level-topped, and, according to Dr. Metz, there 

 had evidently been no previous disturbance of the gravel. 



Subsequently, in the spring of 1887, Dr. Metz found 

 another palaeolith in an excavation in a similar deposit in the 

 northeast corner of the county, on the Little Miami across 

 from Loveland. The river makes something of an elbow 

 here, open to the west. This space is occupied by a gravel- 

 terrace about fifty feet above the stream. The terrace is 

 composed in places of very coarse material, much resembling 

 that of Trenton, N. J., where Dr. Abbott has found imple- 

 ments. The excavation is about one quarter of a mile back 

 from the river, near the residence of Judge Johnson. The 

 section shows much coarser material near the surface than at 

 the bottom. The material is largely of the limestones of the 

 region, with perhaps ten per cent of granitic pebbles. The 

 limestone pebbles are partially rounded, but are mostly ob- 

 long. Some of them are from one to three feet in length. 

 These abound for the upper twenty feet of the section on 

 the east side toward the river. One granitic bowlder noticed 

 was about two feet in diameter. On the west side of the 

 cut, away from the river, mastodon-bones were found in a 

 deposit of sand underlying the coarser gravel and pebbles. 

 It was here, about thirty feet below the surface, that Dr. 

 Metz found the palaeolithic implement referred to. 



In October, 1889, Mr. W. C. Mills, president of a local 

 archaeological society of some importance at Newcomerstown, 

 on the Tuscarawas River, in Ohio (see map on page 168), found 

 a flint implement of palaeolithic type fifteen feet below the sur- 

 face of the glacial terrace bordering the valley at that place. 

 The facts were noted by Mr. Mills in his memorandum-book at 

 the time, and the implement was placed with others in his col- 

 lection. But, as he was not familiar with implements of that 

 type, and did not at the time know the significance of these 

 gravel deposits, nothing was said about it until meeting me the 

 following spring, when I was led from his account to suspect 



