Public Ledger

Another Remarkable Discovery.

In our issue of Saturday last we alluded briefly to the fact that Professor Holmes, of the College of Charleston, the fame of whose labors is as wide spread in Europe as America, had discovered in the post-pleiocene beds of St. Andrew's Parish, large collections of fossils and relics, such as the bones of extinct Mastodon, Megatherium, Mylodon and Tapir; also of the American deer, raccoon, beaver, etc., and hatchets of stone, arrow heads, and other articles, all of which conduced to the belief that a race of men and animals inhabited this continent at a period perhaps as remote as the Noachian flood. Unfortunately, however, no traces of man, other than those we have mentioned, had been, until yesterday, discovered, when strange to relate, in a manner almost accidental, we might say providential, Prof. Kerr, now State Geologist, of North Carolina, who visited these beds at the invitation of Professor Holmes, found amongst deposits of a similar character to those already enumerated, the femur (thigh bone) and tibia (shin bone) of a man, the former being sixteen inches and the latter about ten and a half inches in length. These interesting relics were brought to the city last night by Professor Kerr, who was accompanied in his explorations only by Dr. N. A. Pratt, the chemist, and presented to Professor Holmes, who kindly brought them to this office for our inspection. They are perfectly formed and in a partial state of petrifaction. We shall expect soon to hear a full explanation of the value of these discoveries from Professor Holmes, who has thus come into possession of unmistakable evidences of the truth of theories he enunciated years since.—Charleston Courier.