I come now to the most singular and marvelous revelation of all: Professor Alexander Winchell, in an interesting and recent work,[1] says: "I had in my possession for some time a copper relic resembling a rude coin, which was taken from an artesian boring at the depth of _one hundred and fourteen feet_, at Lawn Ridge, Marshall County, Illinois. "Mr. W. H. Wilmot, then of Lawn Ridge, furnished me, in a letter dated December 4, 1871, the following statement of deposits pierced in the boring: Soil 3 feet. Yellow clay 17 " Blue clay 44 " Dark vegetable matter 4 " Hard purplish clay 18 " Bright green clay 8 " Mottled clay 18 " Soil 2 " Depth of coin 114 " Yellow clay 1 " Sand and clay. Water, rising 60 feet. "In a letter of the 27th of December, written from Chillicothe, Illinois, he stated that the bore was four inches for eighty feet, and three inches for the remainder of the depth. But before one hundred feet had been reached the four-inch portion was 'so plastered over as to be itself but three inches in diameter,' and hence the 'coin' could not have come from any depth less than _eighty feet_. "'Three persons saw "the coin" at the same instant, and each claims it.' This so-called coin was about the [1. "Sparks from a Geologist's Hammer," p. 170.] {p. 356} thickness and size of a silver quarter of a dollar, and was of _remarkably uniform thickness_. It was approximately round, and _seemed to have been cut_. Its two faces bore marks as shown in the figure, _but they were not stamped as with a die nor engraved_. They looked as if _etched_ ### ### COPPER COIN, FOUND ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN FEET UNDER GROUND IN ILLINOIS.