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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 palaeontological 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 quarries of Moulin / Quignon, near Abbeville, in the department of Somme, found a human / jawbone fourteen feet beneath the surface. It was the first fossil of / this nature that had ever been brought to light. Not far distant were / found stone hatchets and flint arrow-heads stained and encased by / lapse of time with a uniform coat of rust.