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��the shaft and examine the formations, but there was no time to spare for erecting the necessary windlass. It is important that the formations at the depth from which the skull is said to have come should be examined for comparison with the material ad- hering to and partially filling the skull, and this work I hope to take up at an early date.
Whitney's Account of the Skull. — According to Whitney's ac- count the skull was taken from the shaft of Mattison & Com- pany's mine in February, 1866. Mr Mattison with his own hands took the skull from near the bottom of a bed of gravel, one hundred and thirty feet from the surface, and within a few feet of the bed-rock — the crystalline slates in which the Tertiary river had carved its channel. It was "lying on the side of the channel [of the Tertiary river] with a mass of driftwood, as if it had been deposited there by an eddy of the stream, and afterward covered over in the deposit of gravel by which bed No. 8 was formed."
���Figure 28 reproduces a section obtained by Mr Edward Hughes, of Stockton, in connection with an unpublished paper on the Calaveras skull, written by Dr A. S. Hudson. It seems to correspond in every essential feature with the section published by Whitney, and with a section furnished me together with pho- tographs of implements and human and animal remains from the region, by Mr R. E. C. Stearns of Los Angeles.
According to Whitney, Mr Mattison did not recognize the
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