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railroad had been for so many years obtaining ballast. The per- 

 pendicular face of this bank of gravel as it was exposed from time 

 to time by the excavations of the railroad men was frequently 

 examined by Mr. Mills, not with special reference to finding im- 

 plements, for that thought had not entered his mind, but for the 

 sake of obtaining specimens of coral, which occasionally occurred 

 in the gravel. While engaged in one of these rounds, on the 27th 

 of October, 18S9, he found this specimen projecting from a fresh 

 exposure of the perpendicular bank, fifteen feet below the sur- 

 face, and, according to his custom, recorded the facts at the time 

 in his note-book. There was no lack of discrimination in his ob- 

 servations, or of distinctness in his memory. 



The accompanying illustration from a photograph taken six 

 months after the discovery, and when a talus consequent upon 

 the frosts of winter had accumulated to a considerable extent at 



Fig. 7. — Terrace in Newcomerstown, showing where W. C. Mills found a Paleo- 

 lithic Implement. 



the base of the deposit, shows the spot in the bank from which 

 the implement was taken. In looking for objects of his quest, 

 Mr. Mills thrust in his cane into the coarser gravel which is seen 

 to overlie the finer deposits. This resulted in detaching a large 

 mass about six feet long and two feet wide, which fell down at his 



