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332 uncover some of these relics of the past. Bones, teeth, and tusks, proving a wide range of animal life, are often found in ditches, mill-races, crumbling cliffs, and other exposures of the sediments of those waters, and often within a few feet of the surface. Did man, too, live there then? We need not point out the evidences of increasing interest the world feels in facts that tend to solve the doubts that cluster around this natural inquiry. A few more mill-races dug, a few more excavations of winter floods—more careful search where mountain streams wash their trophies to their burial under still waters—and this question may be set at rest, as regards that Wallamet Sound. Oregon does not answer it yet."

Oregon has no State Geologist; and so far has been subject to the investigations, chiefly, of one man, Mr. Condon, with the exception of such slight observations as have been made from time to time by the Government explorers for the Pacific Railroad. That it is a field well worthy of scientific research there can be no doubt, nor that it is one which will richly reward the necessary outlay of money.