The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1872-02-22
Significant Relics.


Bones Of elephants and hippopotami.
and rude stone axes, and artitirialiv fash
Toned stone clubs, have been found in a
gravel Of broken tiint,. At least thirty feet
under the streets of London. That citv.
known IN the chronicles OF remote and
misty antiquity AS Lud's-Town. (atter
Lud, one OF the Celtic chiefs or Kings
has an authentic history dating back very
nearly two thousand wears. 1t WAS I city,
after the manner of that region and time,
before Chrlsts birth. The relies of Caesar
and his conquering legionS, which have
at various times been hauled out of the
oozY bed OF the Thames, or dug up from
the bottom clay OF the existing formation
on Which the present city is built, and
modern momentoeS in comparison with
the fathomlesS antiquity Of the animal re-
mans and the relics of the Stone-Age,
winch have been found in the deeper
I, H. nt'''h' lne deposit OF broken tilntS and
ht'I- htSe must nave been IN
''"' ,'Hl aid Iol9-bnrlcd re-
l.i'lill9 ~ lile u1FS ol Abraham and the
II II i'' aoh. hrFc WINS flne, top re-
iil'le ~ ,he guli ol vanished years To be
.I'''7uieu' mi eFeh adeqnateIy realized N
'i' ilinp' "hth tie pane OF me earth
~ Pi''hlo "lIh we ecllPtl", ana huge
-p',is h,iu o'her tropical groWthS
!, ~ !Nii''' ai'Ne IN Nreat Brltan and IN
i'0@S''' any tiie eiePnahl anu the rhmoce-
ioS roa'l'tu me Jungies OF Jutland, and
otheI h"'lifrh regions 1t Is curious
i't ',''l i'i 'ht iitSt twenty years a con
Sp'eraoie ana pr"ntahle business has been
u""o III eNil'''liih@ ettPhaht IVORY from the
'r"Heh ShpreS "i >loerla. on the Arctic
ocean, aH'. carrying IL 10y Shlp-Ioad to
l-"nu"h. MoSl Oh these antedlIuvlan re-
Hi'H'' appear 10 ne those OF small eie-
pfii"VS' "ut some nave oeen dl9get ont
that "e'r ''i-Erowh one, 1t Is stated,
win thf hpSh SUN remalnlng-and on civ
lh2 |! % the dogs they eagerly devoured
the SUI hitll-lrozen meat which had been
preserved lor unknown centuries by the
conservative ana purifying agency of the
irost- uhchanged IN ITS essential structure
through ages winch had wrought stupen-
1ous changes on the face OF our planet;
ageS whose period ascrlbed to Adam an
tedates our own. These stone axes and
chlseis' Whlch bear unmlstakable evidence
OF their origin As human devices. albeit
the skill displayed was the rudeSt, have
been found IN various parts of Europe,
ana often m company with the bones OF
elephants, hyHnas, cave-bears. and other
antedlluVlan creatures. Nearly a hundred
feet above the surface OF the river Somme,
IN France, are gravel terraces, whose
shells are OF character to prove that
once the river bed was up there; and an
exploration OF these terraces discloses
stone matches and countless bones. none
of them nearer the surface than twenty
feet. One relic was a rhnoceros's leg,
all perfect, to the minutest bone; and an
elephants tooth and flint tool Law near
by Iusks OF hippopotam;, and other
even larger, creatures of the ancient world
We're found in the same drift, with varl-
GUS stone implements plainly fashioned
by human hands. In an excavation in the
Pyrenees there were found among some
rhlnocefos bones and remains of other ami
mails, seventeen human Skeletons Some of
lile zones ol the wild beasts had been spllt
l,aaentiy ior the 'llariow'ahu othefs
oa,;a " .'iu'sl'o.la,'ie es!uehueS .! 'ne
l.a.;on " iiIeas I, lhueeo' ulu an lhe lhni-
fire which had been seemingly applied
before the flesh had been removed. Under
the present city of Glasgow no fewer than
five rude seal boats have been dug up-one
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