New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-27
is nothing TO show why human beings should nave
Y cd In he n md mt East.

Is nothing 10 show why human beings snoulu hs'o
The succession Of animate life throughout vast periods
fnv wear, naturaIi,t and arciaeohciSs have studied
kents Cavern rorquay stalagme forms ID this
place the If foot in 10000 years, and IN 'ert
spots there i've feet Of limestone deposited rom ts
solution Of thi, rock In acidnlaied water W">e a.
plants over which IT flowed. Above this layer bla.k
mould and lucst blocks are ~trcNn. ana Druc1ttn
IT lies req cave eath cry ,talNne s.iaE.' and pre-
and red oam on top OF tiiN S'OnN cover, an"
served by thc welding together OF mould ana stll.
tired lndelneath Il he tH0Se OF qlaiie'faiie ,,.s
mal>-thc elephant of Arctic England wlo,e li1e n,
covered with 5000 pounds 81 WOOL and TIE great Nc
bear, rtindcer. hirna. ana Woody rlho'eros g. puc
stl IN the bcccii and red loan on the cavern nour ne
with the pleoltc implements OF intersa'lan ,,, c
80 2Hccnt record 81 the association OF our Ti
geological conditions exists than ti, aliNo15m a. a
matter Of mere antiquity the skull Of ne thG n,
bourgeois discovered the European tertiary are ~.
mea surahly antique. No ore knows Tor ,etihn
arrival (, equally obscure This much. however Is
Observation-Disclosures they have been here long enough
continent ard ~, could nave Icon accomplished only
during the lapse OF unnumhered millcnninms ,., no
There some circumstances connected WIN tnc
finding Of this masi0dpn which are not without llnin
interest and possibly Importance Draw s'a 49,
and the further end Will rest upon prehistoric me una
found by of the members Of the prescat expedition
scientific perspcscty Of hi, own hut purely by acct
dent. Describe angle from Ills point two ana one
half miles southeast 10y east and The shoitrr siue
touches miles Of stone resting upon lne
second terrace of stream running through demSeS
wooded gorge. south Of the heights that shut them III
on that side spreads ont alluvial plain whose IN.
deriving strata of clay and gravei washed omu N
q heavy rcshe In the CapOn River disclosed nhmbcf
Of ancient hcarhS. together with fragments of massive
stone dishes Instruments OF clipped INIT, ana , wi'
West Virginia has been called mere hunting ana "a,
north and south OF this area Here. nevertheless
the unqnc>tionable evidences Of settled p1Pna
lion belonging 10 periods which are In all probability
widely
The present writer, not provided with any ON
hand theory TO account for the facts. 1t may be sng
gested. however, that despite thi, deficiency. therc
l. reason to think those men who SucCe' SiNey ouit
| the tombs and the mound had predecessors in the
same place. and hi, TO an indefinite extent Possibly
also those who made an arrow inalllactorN Nv NC
Gunrtz cld mon the road leading from WardenSvlc
f. canon Lake were preceded by Others who in
| prmeval times constructed the weapons with WHICH
Thcrc is no intention TO connect The ves.lccs Of n
former occupation Of Hardy County with The Dolls
found at Mountain Valley in any definite manner hHt
at The same time nothing Negatives hypotnesis 70
| the effect that this extinct animals remains ai1
those constructions which have been mentioned stand
to each other in The relation Of terms IN Drohcn
series. Sir Richard Iuron has aid that A Anrce
wcares with its want Of history ana conSeqnehtN s
Of romance. H. pat is nScndcant rs present t.e
OF lives dweS in the future" What we have been
discussing seems rather to point toward oIn iG
field open 70 here The ruins on Titicacai shote
are probably ancient those on the EnplIatGN or
OF the British Museum. hc southern extremity
Pl,ae -plphoS ard well made. No more important
questions relating to the science Of man remain 10 be
settled than those which This continent presents In
its native races and thor rcIdjusimcnt 10 the con
ditione involved I'm foreign contact Beyond all ms,
and apart from tho contributions which America mas
made and l. making ~ existing knowledge 81 primitive
superSons. manners. customs. and Therefore to the
comparative history II religion and ne vet unde
vclOpod science If comparative psychology no one
can know beforehand whether In Virginia or else
in connection with the f1ura Of That period may not
be established rs indl> pntlhly as IL + In Europe
The circumstances attending the discovery ~ this
maStodon Of Mountain VALLEY hav" been given. and
an outline Of those suggestions which H. presence
| there affords. what further developments, II any,
viii attend the recovery Of the remains is Of course at
present uuknOwn. An that eau now lie done is to
| dig them ont completely and sec.