Early Man in Minnesota. — Holmes. 
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Tvere somewhat freshly broken down exposing the black surface 
loam a few inches thick and portions of the yellowish sandy loam 
beneath. The former finds of flaked quartz were made mainlj^ 
at X X, fig. 1, just above where the water now washes -the north- 
ern bank of the roadwaj', and I found many specimens project- 
ing from the soil at this point; but examination developed the 
fact, not observed by Miss Babbitt, that others were present, 
though more sparingly, in the dark loam on both sides of the 
roadway all the way up. I began a trench at the water's edge, 
as indicated by the heavy dotted lines, and carried it into the 
terrace, descending at intervals two or three feet below the water 
level. On the submerged slope as far below water level as it 
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F'iG. 1. Sketch map of the quartz shop described by Miss Babbitt. The heavier de- 
posit of quartzes is at .x x .\. Tlie heavy dotted lines indicate the position of my treuch. 
could be examined, the quartzes were apparently confined prett}' 
much to the surface. The main deposit of shaped pieces, the 
Babbitt bed, rested upon a bed of nearh' pure sand sloping gently 
upward from the water level. 
As the trench advanced large numbers of the quartz fragments 
were encountered and it was observed that they corresponded 
closely in every way with those described and illustrated by Miss 
Babbitt and with those found upon and near the surface on the 
river banks below. There were in the deposit considerable 
masses of white quartz, just as they wei'e- derived from the veins, 
smaller fragments, bits, flakes and many partially shaped pieces 
