The ice age in North America and its bearing upon the antiquity of man5th edwith many new maps and illus., enland rewritten to incorporate the facts that bring it up to date, with chapters on Lake Agassiz and the Probable cause of glaciation . in jilaceeight feet from the surface, and Dr. Abbotts son Eichardfound another about four feet from the surface. These threespecimens were found within twenty or thirty feet of eachother, after a heavy shower had made the most favorable con-ditions for their discovery. My own first visit to the locality was in November, 1880,in company with Professors W.
The ice age in North America and its bearing upon the antiquity of man5th edwith many new maps and illus., enland rewritten to incorporate the facts that bring it up to date, with chapters on Lake Agassiz and the Probable cause of glaciation . in jilaceeight feet from the surface, and Dr. Abbotts son Eichardfound another about four feet from the surface. These threespecimens were found within twenty or thirty feet of eachother, after a heavy shower had made the most favorable con-ditions for their discovery. My own first visit to the locality was in November, 1880,in company with Professors W. Boyd Dawkins, Henry , and H. Carvill Lewis, when we were conducted byDr. Abbott to the various localities favorable for investiga-tion. Professor Lewis and myself also repeatedly visited the MAN AND THE GLACIAL PERIOD. 629 locality afterward. But neither of us was ever so fortunateas to tind a palaeolithic implement in place, or even in thefresh talus of the blutf facing the river. As our experienceis that of many others who have visited the locality, andhence of attempts in some quarters to throw doubts upon thegenuineness of Dr. Abbotts discoveries, it is worth while torecord that Professors Dawkins and Haynes independently.
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