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it, with such connecting comments as may be necessary for expla- 
nation. The subject was first brought to my notice by the follow- 
ing letter from Mr. Charles Francis Adams, president of the Union 
Pacific Railroad. 
Boston , Sept. 8, 1889. 
Professor G. F. Wright, Oberlin, Ohio. 
My Dear Sir : 
During a recent trip to Alaska I was greatly interested in 
your book on the Ice Age of America. After my return, and while 
the subject was still fresh in my mind, I had occasion to stop for 
a few hours with the party which accompanied me at Boise City, 
in Idaho. While there I heard various references made to a curious 
clay image, evidently the work of human hands, which had recently 
been found while boring for artesian water. 
As you are aware, this is a lava region, and the image in ques- 
tion was found at a depth of some three hundred and twenty feet 
below the surface. 
The day after the image was thrown up by the borer, Mr. Gum- 
ming, the general manager of the Union Pacific lines in that dis- 
trict, chanced to be in Boise City, and saw it. Mr. Cumming is a 
graduate of Harvard College, and a thoroughly trained man. His 
evidence I should take as conclusive in regard to the facts. Think- 
ing the matter may be of interest to you, I send you the inclosed 
memorandum in relation to this image. It was taken down by me 
on the spot while examining the image, which is now in the pos- 
session of Mr. M. A. Kurtz, of Nampa, Idaho, who picked it up 
when thrown out of the pipe. 
Yours, etc., 
Charles F. Adams. 
MEMORANDUM OF IMAGE FOUND AT NAMPA, IDAHO. 
Material, baked clay ; size, about an inch and a half long ; un- 
mistakably made by human beings. 
It was found about the first of August, 1889, at Nampa, in Ada 
County, Idaho, under the following circumstances : 
M. A. Kurtz was engaged in boring an artesian well. The image 
was brought to the surface through the pipe in the usual way among 
some heavy, coarse sand, from a depth of three hundred and twenty 
feet from the surface. 
