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reputation saw the point of the implement projecting from 

 the perpendicular bank while the workmen were at dinner, 

 and extracted it with his own hands. The implement was 

 submitted to the joint meeting of the Geological and Anthro- 

 pological sections of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science at Springfield Mass., in 1895, where 

 Professor F. W. Putnam, Mr. F. H. Cushing and Miss Alice 

 Fletcher and others all recognized it as an indubitable relic 

 of great antiquity. 



Its great age was indicated by the patina with which it 

 was covered, and by the fact, instantly recognized by Dr. 

 Cushing, that the form was antique, being intermediate 

 between that of paleoliths and modern Indian implements. 



Fig. 173.— Section of the Trough of the Ohio at Brilliant. Location of 

 the implement shown by a *. 



For full accounts see " Popular Science Monthly" for De- 

 cember 1895, pp. 157-166. 



The cumulative evidence of these facts is increased with 

 the discovery, by Mr. Hilborne T. Cresson, of Philadelphia, 

 in 1886, of implements of similar type in Medora, Ind. 

 Medora is situated in Jackson county, about one hundred 

 miles west of Cincinnati, and is on the border of the glaciated 

 region in that State. The situation is upon the East Fork of 

 White River, near where it enters the triangular unglaciated 

 portion of Southern Indiana as seen in the map of the fa- 

 cial boundary. The eastern border of this consists of sand- 



