sent to the State Fair as a specimen of crockeryused in the mines several thousand years ago. Asimilar vessel was found at Coloma, in 185 i, at a depthof fifteen feet, under an oak-tree not less tlian 1000years old. 596 THE EPOCH OF THE MAMMOTH. Many stone mortars and mastodon bones, we aretold,… … Granite Mortar—G-old Springs Gulch. known as California was in its Polished Stone Age dur-ing what is geologically known as the Tertiary Age, andthat the inhabitants made use of lar^-e o-ranite mortarsand skillets with spouts, and grooved stone hammers,and slate tubes, and ladles of steatite. The…
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