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KENTON

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 740 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KENTON , a See also:

city and the See also:county seat of Hardin county,: See also:Ohio, U.S.A., on the Scioto See also:river, 6o m. N.W. of See also:Columbus. Pop. (Igloo), 6852, including 493 See also:foreign-See also:born and 271 negroes; (rofo), 7185. It is served by the See also:Erie, the See also:Cleveland, See also:Cincinnati, See also:Chicago & St See also:Louis, and the Ohio Central See also:railways. It is built on the See also:water-parting between See also:Lake Erie and the Gulf of See also:Mexico, here about r,000 ft. above See also:sea-level. There are shops of the Ohio Central railway here, and manufactories of hard-See also:ware. The See also:municipality owns and operates its waterworks. Kenton was named in See also:honour of See also:Simon Kenton (1755-1836) a famous See also:scout and See also:Indian fighter, who took See also:part in the border warfare, particularly in See also:Kentucky and Ohio, during the See also:War of See also:American See also:Independence and afterwards. It was platted and be-came the county seat in 1833, and was chartered as a city in 1885. See also:KENT'S CAVERN, or KENT'S HOLE, the largest of See also:English See also:bone caves, famous as affording See also:evidence of the existence of See also:Man in See also:Devon (See also:England) contemporaneously with animals now See also:extinct or no longer indigenous. It is about a mile See also:east of See also:Torquay See also:harbour and is of a sinuous nature, See also:running deeply into a See also:hill of Devonian See also:limestone.

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long known locally, it was not until 1825 that it was scientifically examined by Rev. J. McEnery, who found worked flints in intimate association with the bones of extinct mammals. He recognized the fact that they proved the existence of man in See also:Devonshire while those animals were alive, but the See also:idea was too novel to be accepted by his contemporaries. His discoveries were afterwards verified by See also:Godwin See also:Austen, and ultimately by the See also:Committee. of the See also:British Association, whose explorations were carried on under the guidance of Wm. See also:Pengelly from 1865 to 1880. There are four distinct strata in the See also:cave. (r) The See also:surface is composed of dark See also:earth and contains See also:medieval remains, See also:Roman pottery and articles which prove that it was in use during the See also:Iron, See also:Bronze and See also:Neolithic Ages. (2) Below this is a stalagmite See also:floor, varying in thickness from 1 to 3 ft., and covering (3) the red earth which contained bones of the hyaena, See also:lion, See also:mammoth, See also:rhinoceros and other animals, in association with See also:flint implements and an engraved antler, which proved man to have been an inhabitant of the cavern during its deposition. Above this and below the stalagmite there is in one part of the cave a See also:black See also:band from 2 to 6 in. thick, formed of See also:soil like No. 2, containing See also:charcoal, numerous flint implements, and the bones and See also:teeth of animals, the latter occasionally perforated as if used for See also:ornament. (4) Filling the bottom of the cave was a hard See also:breccia, with the remains of bears and flint implements, the latter in the See also:main ruder than those found above; in some places it was no less than 12 ft. thick.

The most remarkable See also:

animal remains found in Kent's Cavern are those of the Sabre-toothed See also:tiger, Machairodus latidens of See also:Sir See also:Richard See also:Owen. While the value of McEnery's discoveries was in dispute the exploration of the cave of See also:Brixham near Torquay in 1858 proved that man was coeval with the extinct See also:mammalia, and in the following See also:year additional See also:proof was offered by the implements that were found in Wookey Hole, See also:Somerset. Similar remains have been met with in the caves of See also:Wales, and in England as far See also:north as See also:Derbyshire (See also:Cresswell), proving that over the whole of See also:southern and See also:middle England men, in precisely the same See also:stage of See also:rude See also:civilization, hunted the rhinoceros, the mammoth and other extinct animals. See Sir See also:John See also:Evans, See also:Ancient See also:Stone Implements of See also:Great See also:Britain (See also:London, 1897) ; See also:Lord See also:Avebury's Prehistoric Times (1900) ; W. Pengelly, Address to the British Association (1883) and See also:Life of him by his daughter (1897) ; Godwin Austen, Proc. Geo. See also:Soc. London, 111. 286; Pengelly, " Literature of Kent's Cavern " in Trans. Devonshire Association (1868); See also:William See also:Boyd See also:Dawkins, Cave-See also:hunting and See also:Early Man in Britain.

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