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To understand this apostrophe of my uncle's, made to absent French savants, it will be necessary to allude to an event of high importance in a pal?ontological point of view, which had occurred a little while before our departure.
On the 28th of March, 1863, some excavators working under the direction of M. Boucher de Perthes, in the stone quarri