The Arizona sentinel., 1879-08-30
raneOus with the other animals
named. But there are many
doubts about the nature, relations
and time of life of these flint

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doubts about the nature, relations
and time of life of these flint
chips. Some III Iintain that they
are not Of human work manship
at ali. but only the result of the
action Of frost on the quartz
rocks. Others admit their human
origin, but caim there is uo satIs-
factory evidence that human be-
ings lived at the time the animals
did.
These remains are generally
found deep In the earth, either
cOmmingled or lying in distinct
but proximate strata, or in sur
face locations. Iu both cases in
or near the old bed of river,
with every indication that in the
first case the remains were depos
tied under the violent action of
water, occurring at different pc
riOds, and in the latter case the
everything strata of detritus have
been washed away, leaving the
remains exposed to view. Ami
NAL remains, as of buffaloes. have
been found in Colorado aud other
places contiguous, where whole
herds have been engulfed by the
action of some cloudburst or land
slide, and it needs only \ few hu-
man remains and implements de-
posted there by some previous
or subsequent similar convulsion
Of nature, to justify the contem-
pOraneous theory.
It will not do TO relegate all Of
these evidences of mans antiq-
uity to some date in the vast ge-
illogical past, for We may logically
assume that the changes which
operated 10 bury and comminglc
from time 10 time, these various
strata ia Q1e common grave oc-
Cured then as they do now, and
in the same manner and in less
time than now, because the con-
figuration of the geological fea-
lures were more prominent and
and more liable to the action of
the elements. Many gradual ele-
vations AMI depressions Of special
localities are going on during our
own age. Southern Italy has
been subject to vertical oscillations
of 20 feet or more within historic
times. The Andes have bean
depressed 900 feet in the last
three-fOurths of a century. The
northern part of Sweden is un-
dergoing gradual elevation
MANY changes of this nature ara
now going Oh at various localities
along the eastern coast of North
America. More sudden changes,
that produced greater changes in
a few hours than the above no.
ticed will in as many centuries,
have occurred in quite recent {
times. We have seen the whole
coast of South America lifted up
10 or Is feet and let down again in
an hour. During an earthquake
in 1919, 1000 squire miles in
Southern Asia sank and became
An inland sea, while adjacent to it
a belt of country 20 miles long
ana IN places 10 broad was lifted
up III feet above its former level.
With regard to the coast on the
Baltic, we have evidence of a
very important depression since
the existence of man. While
digging a canal near stockholm
the workmen came upon small
, fishing hut at a depth of 60 feet.
} And as this subsidence is still
going on, it seems to stand in cor
robora ion of the theory that at
no very distant day, as compared
with the lapse of time claimed
by some, that region stood many
feet higher than at present.
Mining and Scientific Press.
The Catholics in Europe are very seos'
t tive on tn. question OF secular eQucatloh
aud are particularly jealous OF Siate ah'
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