A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . H K XHO 2o H CO. THE CALAVERAS SKULL. 17 At this exhumation, Dr. Koch always affirmed that twenty personsof the vicinity were present; others have vouched for his integrityand general truthfulness ; ^ and though he had little knowledge ofscientific facts and methods, and made grave mistakes in the classifica-tion of fossil bones, his experience
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . H K XHO 2o H CO. THE CALAVERAS SKULL. 17 At this exhumation, Dr. Koch always affirmed that twenty personsof the vicinity were present; others have vouched for his integrityand general truthfulness ; ^ and though he had little knowledge ofscientific facts and methods, and made grave mistakes in the classifica-tion of fossil bones, his experience and success in recovering them wasgreater than that of any other explorers.^ If such a scene, then, theevidences of which he claims to have uncovered, ever occurred — ascene in itself by no means improbable if man and the mastodonlived at the same time in the same region of country — a picture ispresented of a hunt by pre-historic men on this continent vivid enoughto appeal to the dullest imagination, and more remarkable than anysimilar incident yet found anywhere else. A year later than this asserted discovery on the Bourbeuse River,the same diligent collector claimed to have made anotherv^hich must be considered on the same grounds. In thebottomlands of t
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