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blow made with another stone, and used for scraping the 

 green hide of the buffalo. 



In an Indian grave, exposed to view by the wearing away 

 of the edge of a bluff, he found a teshoa and some perforated 

 canines of elk, which are highly prized by the Shoshones as 

 ornaments. This form of adornment is quite common to prim- 

 itive man, as it occurs abundantly in the shell heaps of New 

 England, and among the prehistoric remains found in France, 

 Germany, and Switzerland. 



PREHISTORIC REMAINS AT SOLOUTRE. 



Some interesting prehistoric remains have lately been found 

 by Ferry and Asetin at Soloutre. This locality is situated 

 at the foot of a high rock, and the surface is covered by 

 broken flints. In the superficial layer there are fragments 

 of pottery of the Middle Ago period, but broken and entire 

 bones of horses occur at a greater depth. Under this layer 

 are found the food refuse, reindeer and horses' bones, stone 

 implements, etc. The hearths are set off with flat stones. 

 Remains of the cave lion and mammoth are also to be met 

 with ; and a rude drawing of a reindeer was found inscribed 

 on a bit of slate. 



The bones of horses were extremely abundant, the soil be- 

 ing filled with them in every direction. The most interest- 

 ing discoveries were certain graves, consisting of rude stone 

 boxes, partly in the earth and partly lying on the hearths. 

 The skeletons of the adults lay upon large hearths, and those 

 of the children on the smaller. According to Pruner-Bey, all 

 the human remains belong to a Mongoloid race. The dis- 

 coverers estimated the antiquity of the remains of this local- 

 ity. at about the earliest period of the reindeer epoch. 7 C, 

 x, 624. 



PECULIAR MOUND CRANIA. 



An interesting paper upon certain peculiarities of the crania 

 of the mound-builders has lately been published by Dr. J. 

 W.Foster, in the American Naturalist, and contains an ac- 

 count of some very peculiar crania received by him from what 

 is called Kennicott's Mound, near Chicago. 5 D, December, 

 1872, 738. 



