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Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc.,_ 12-224:
That, in July, 1871, a letter was received from Mr. Jacob W. Moffit, of Chillicothe, Ill., enclosing a photograph of a coin, which he said had been brought up, by him, while boring, from a depth of 120 feet.
Of course, by conventional scientific standards, such depth has some extraordinary meaning. Paleontologists, geologists, and arch¾ologists consider themselves reasonable in arguing ancient origin of the far-buried. We only accept: depth is a pseudostandard with us; one earthquake could bury a coin of recent mintage 120 feet below the surface.
According to a writer in the Proceedings, the coin is uniform in thickness, and had never been hammered out by savages—“there are other tokens of the machine shop.”
But, according to Prof. Leslie, it is an
