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terrace of glacial gravel which lines the margin of the Tuscarawas valley. Mr. Mills was not aware of the importance of this discovery until meeting with me some months later, when he described the situation to me, and soon after sent the implement for examination. In company with Judge C. C. Baldwin, President of the Western Reserve Historical Society, and several others, a visit was made to Mr. Mills, and we carefully examined the gravel-pit in which the implement occurred, and collected evidence which was abundant to corroborate all his statements. The implement in question is made from a peculiar flint which is found in the Lower Mercer limestone, of which there are outcrops a few miles distant; and it resembles in so many ways the typical implements found by Boucher de Perthes, at Abbeville, that, except for the difference in the material from which it is made, it would be impossible to distinguish it from them. The similarity of pattern is too minute to have originated except from imitation."[1]

In another place Dr. Wright gives a statement of Mr. Mills in regard to the specimen, from which I quote the following additional details: "While examining the different strata of the gravel, I found the specimen that you have before you fifteen feet from the surface of the terrace. The bank was almost perpendicular at this time, exposing a front of about twenty feet. The small part of the bank was in place in the side of the terrace, until I struck it with my walking-cane, when a space of about six feet in length by two feet in height tumbled down, exposing to view the specimen. At first I recognized the peculiar shape and glossy appearance of the specimen, such as were characteristic of paleolithic specimens described to me by Professor Edward Orton, while I was a student at the Ohio State University."[2] Mr. Mills has, I believe, published nothing save through Professor Wright, and we must therefore take the above as the authoritative statements of the finding. A re-statement embodying additional minor details and placing the evidence fully and

  1. ↑ Wright, G. F."Man and the Glacial Period," p. 251.
  2. ↑ Wright, G. F.Report of Western Reserve Historical Society, Dec. 12, 1890.
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