1894.] 



NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 



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to a little more than an inch except in one place where a short log 

 six inches in diameter was converted into charcoal. 



"Except an arrow and a spear, found loose in the dirt, there was 

 not a relic of any description, nor the smallest fragment of a human 

 bone. A few pieces of much burned bones of small animals or large 

 birds were in the charcoal at the center, and many small pieces of 

 burned stone were scattered all through the mound. The eastern 



Section of deep grave, 20 feet south from center of larger mound on Van Meter farm. 



1. Body of mound, 6 feet. 



2. Soil, 1 foot. 



3. Subsoil, 3 feet. 



4. Gravel, (to bed of river). 



4a. Gravel thrown from excavation. 

 XXXXX. Position of human bones. 

 Scale. .18 of au inch equals 1 foot. 



half contained a large amount of ashes and much eliarcoal, thrown 

 in with the dirt to help fill up. 



"In the larger mound a circle forty feet in diameter was laid oft 

 with the apex as the center. This brought the circumference about 

 four feet below the top. 



"In the cap, 12 feet east of center were decayed human bones 

 with a few rough beads and fragments of pottery; at the same dis- 

 tance southwest of center were others with a spear or knife by one 

 femur aud a flint chisel, polished at the sharp end, near the skull. 

 None of the bones were entire, and being so close to the surface were 



