'A stone axe was shown me the other day which n Chinese had picked up on a hillside, five miles south of Chingchoufu city. It is a perfect specimen and is of hard, green stone of a sort not indigenous to the locality. This is a most interesting find, for it is identical in shape and material with many specimens the writer has seen from other parts of the world, A similar implement was picked up some years ago by a. missionary at Ch'anglo city, twenty miles west of here. The Chinese consider these as freaks of nature, and it would be interesting to know what other finds they have made of such antiquities, The axe of an English missionary at Chingchoufu, fit alluded to above is now the property
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