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...about the fire-places were rarely gnawed by animals. Another important discovery was that of the extinct peccary, which has been found also in Hartman's cave, and of teeth of the tapir. The nature of the human remains and the fact that they are found only in one layer, prove that the Indians lived in the cave, and that they had no predecessors in these regions...
Professor Marsh delivered a lecture before a very fair audience in Sever 11 last evening on Provencal Poetry. Provence, he said, had received layer on layer of culture from previous civilizations, and in it the tradition of refinement was never lost and its impression would not long be stifled...
...explained, with stereopticon views, the different kinds of waterfalls classified according to a physical basis. The first case is where a stream comes to a cliff in its natural course and plunges over; second, where a stream falls over a bluff and gradually cuts its way through a layer of earth in certain places and thus causes a water fall. Every water power in New England is of the last class. This is the kind of knowledge that a teacher needs before he studies how to teach his subject. He should have a solid foundation and should not stop with...
...largest collection of mounds is the Turner group which contains the famous Large Mound. This is made very carefully and of many kinds of material, the foundation being a circle of stone one hundred feet in diameter, firled in with burnt clay, over which is a layer of mixed iron and gravel packed into a solid mass like concrete. This gravel made a floor for the support of two altars. That the mound was used exclusively for religious rites is certain from the fact that after some great religious festival in which thousands of treasures of all kinds were heaped...
...against evil spirits, and these figures are often merely impressed upon the stone while still in the soft condition. Seals with writtings on various subjects have been found, and one of the most important ones we have shows that it was used in some important commercial transaction. An extra layer of stone was layed over the seal for protection, and upon the outside of this, writings similar to those the original seal contained were made. From the fact that the outer covering was unremovable except by chemical means, we conclude the seal must have been exceedingly valuable...