304 The American Geologist. NOvembor, iss.j 
anxious to know whether ghicial man was a reality or a mytiu 
In so important a discussion it is right that every one who 
comes into possession of data that may iiave some bearing on 
the solution should contribute them to the general fund and 
without making any claim to the title of archaeologist or an- 
thropologist I therefore put on paper the following state- 
ments as made to myself and the results of enquiries so far as 
I have been able to follow them up, 
J/r. JIastermcDi's Narrative. 
In the early part of the present summer (1896) an acquaint- 
ance of mine living in north-central Ohio called on me and 
showed me some implements which he had found during the 
past few years in the drift near the town, New London, at 
which he lived. Enquiring into the facts and examining the 
articles, I saw at once that, if no mistake had been made, the 
latter would be of considerable interest and possibly of no 
small value. I therefore noted down at once all that he could 
tell me, and after thinking over the data went to New London 
and spent a day on the ground, where Mr. Masterman was- 
kind enough to drive me to the places of interest and thus 
enable me to obtain further useful and important particulars. 
Everything that I saw and heard confirmed the accuracy of 
his narrative and I returned convinced that, however we might 
explain the problem, the implements must have been found as^ 
described. 
My next step was to obtain from Mr. Masterman a state- 
ment with his own signature of the exact circumstances in 
which the most important of these implements had been dis- 
covered. This statement is given below. 
Statement regarding the finding of the grooved ntoiLe axe. 
"I, Elmer E. Masterman, of New London, O., was engaged in the 
summer of 1886 in digging a well on the farm of E. Chapin, about two 
miles northeast of New London, and at the depth of twenty-two feet I 
found a stone implement, a photograph of which accompanies this 
statement. 
"I placed it among my other curiosities, not from any thought of its 
l)ossible interest or importance, but because of its lightness, which 
struck me as very singuhvr. Its softness and stratified appearance alsu 
attracted my attention. 
"It is a grooved stone axe, very much weathered. 
"In digging the weU I passed through the following strata: 
