EVIDENCES OF GLACIAL MAN IN OHIO. 



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Ohio. Dr. Metz is a physician of large practice, of high char- 

 acter, and of long experience as an assistant of Prof. Putnam in 

 exploring the mounds of Ohio. He knows the difference between 

 disturbed and undisturbed gravel as perfectly as any one does. 

 His residence is upon the glacial terrace which borders the Little 

 Miami Valley. In 1885, while digging a cistern in this terrace, a 

 perfectly formed implement of black chert was found by him in 

 undisturbed gravel eight feet below the surface. This was ex- 

 hibited by Prof. Putnam at a meeting of the Boston Society of 

 Natural History, on the 4th of November, 1885, and is No. 40,970 

 in the Peabody Museum. Two other implements were discovered 

 at a later time by Dr. Metz in the talus of the glacial terrace of 

 the Little Miami, at Loveland, where also numerous bones of the 



Fig. 3. — Chipped Pebble of Black Cheet, found by Dr. C. L. Metz, October, 1885, at 

 Madisonville, Ohio, in gravel eight feet from surface under clay : a, face view ; b, side 

 view. Natural size. 



mammoth were found. But, as these were not in place when dis- 

 covered, they can not be adduced as positive evidence. 



The discovery at Newcomerstown, of which Messrs. Holmes, 

 Brinton, and McGee speak so lightly because they do not know 

 the facts, is really one of the best attested of all the single cases. 

 The discovery was made in 1889 by Mr. W. C. Mills. The imple- 

 ment has been presented to the Western Reserve Historical Soci- 

 ety of Cleveland, and can there be seen at any time in company 

 with various implements from France. A photogravure from it 

 appears in the smaller figure in the following cut. 



The discovery of the implement was made in October, but it 

 was not brought to public notice until the next spring, when I 

 chanced to meet Mr. Mills and learned about it. He then for- 



