132 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT. 
there can be no question, as the section is continuous along the canal 
bank and the deposits identical in appearance. Elephas columbi, 
Eqmis leidyi and other extinct species are found at an equal or 
higher level in the beds on either side of the human remains. From 
the marl rock which lies at the top of the section the writer ob¬ 
tained within six feet of the place where the human skeleton lay, 
a premolar tooth of a fox, representing not the common gray fox 
of that region, but either an extinct species, or possibly the red 
fox, Vulpes pcnnsylvanicus, which at present is not known in 
Florida. In immediate association with the human bones were the 
scapula and astragalus of a deer which is also found elsewhere in 
the sand, being one of the common fossils of the bone bed. In 
addition a hyoid bone of the sloth, Megalonyx jeffersonii, and 
pieces of the teeth of the mastodon, Mammut americanmn, have 
been collected from the canal bank at the place where the human 
bones were found. 
Fig. 3. Sketch to show the location of the first human skeletal remains 
found at Vero. Horizontal scale 1 inch equals 30 feet; vertical scale 1 inch 
equals 10 feet. At this place in the south bank of the canal 330 feet west of 
the railroad bridge, stratum No. 2 of the general section grades at the top into 
a hard sandy, marl rock having a thickness of 15 inches. The human bones 
as indicated in the sketch were below the hard rock and were imbedded in the 
brown sand. 
. MINERALIZATION OF THE BONES. 
The chemical analysis of fossil bones is usually considered 
as affording important contributory evidence of age. In the present 
instance the opportunity for comparative analysis is particularly 
good, since it is possible on one hand to compare the fossil human 
bones with the recent human bones from the Indian mounds, and 
on the other with the bones of animals, known to be of Pleistocene 
age, found' in the same bed as the human bones. Accordingly, 
analyses have been made at the writer’s request in the State Labora- 
