The Ancient Man of Calavera 



[November, 



But why need we specify any further single instances. The 

 witnesses already given were all credible and worthy men, they 

 could have had no possible collusion, they had no motive for de- 

 ception, and the circumstances were such that they could not well 

 be deceived as to what they stated. If any candid person will 

 not be convinced by the evidence they give, he would be equally 

 incredulous were a hundred more to testify to the same truths. 



And the hundred more could be summoned were it worth the 



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while, for the instances in which the products of human work- 

 manship have been washed out of the " gravel " in searching for 

 gold are altogether too numerous for record. Very many of 

 them are now in the Museum of the University of California, and 

 very many more were disregarded and lost, for so common did 

 they become during the days of surface mining, that at length the 

 miners paid no attention to them, and they simply went in with 

 the refuse of the workings. 



They were almost universally implements of stone, such as 

 mortars, pestles, rude vases or platters, that is, articles which 

 could be used for grinding food, &c, but all rough i 



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