en Acapulco and Manila. It may be some
satisfaction to the more severely practical of my readers to know
that, according to the best statistics of insurance, the loss during
that period would be exactly three vessels and six hundredths of a
vessel, which would certainly justify me in this summary disposition
of ONE.

THE PLIOCENE SKULL. This extraordinary fossil is in the possession
of Prof. Josiah D. Whitney, of the State Geological Survey of
California. The poem was based on the following paragraph from the
daily press of 1868: "A human skull has been found in California, in
the pliocene formation. This skull is the remnant not only of the
earliest pioneer of this State, but the oldest known human being....
The skull was found in a shaft 150 feet deep, two miles from Angels
in Calaveras County, by a miner named James Watson, who gave it to
Mr. Scribner, a merchant, who gave it to Dr. Jones, who sent it to
the State Geological Survey.... The published volume of the
State Survey of the Geology of California states that man existed
here contemporaneously with the mastodon, but this fossil proves
that he was here before the mastodon was known to exist."

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