HUMAN REMAINS AND ASSOCIATED FOSSILS. 
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rachian, snake and bird bones as well as acorns and fossil wood. 
The bird found at this place is described on page 146. 
The section at the place where these fossils were taken is as 
follows: 
Feet. 
Sand and marl, stratum No. 3_ 3 
Brown sand, some muck, stratum No. 2_ 2 
Marine shell marl to water level _ 4 
SECOND DISCOVERY OF HUMAN REMAINS IN THE OLDER 
STREAM DEPOSIT, STRATUM NO. 2, OF THE SECTION. 
PI. 16; pi. 17, fig. 2; pi. 20; figs. 2-5; pi. 21, figs. 3, 5. 
While excavating in the south bank of the canal at the locality 
465 feet west of the bridge, the writer in June, 1916, found human 
bones in place in the older stream deposit, stratum No. 2 of the 
section. The section at this place i^ as follows: 
Feet. 
Alluvial deposit consisting of alternating beds of sand and muck, repre¬ 
senting No. 3 of the general section _ 2 14 
Dark colored sand, representing No. 2 of the general section _ i l A 
Shell marl, representing No. 1 of the general section to water level, about 4 
The exposure in the canal bank at the place where these bones 
were found is shown in the accompanying sketch and in the pho¬ 
tographs (plates 16 and 17). The top surface of stratum No. 2 
here as elsewhere is irregular, the irregularities being filled by the 
overlying deposits. At the spot where the human bones were 
found, owing to stream-wash previous to the deposition of the over- 
lying deposit, the fresh-water stratum, No. 2 of the section, is only 
18 inches thick. The human bones were found in this sand, about 
10 inches above the base. The overlying alluvial beds are stratified 
and as usual conform to the irregularities of the underlying forma¬ 
tion. The human bones at this place were found and removed 
by the writer, in the presence and with the assistance of Isaac M. 
Weills and Frank Ayers. The first bone found was a right astra¬ 
galus; the second bene taken in place was the right external cunei¬ 
form which lay at the same level and about ten inches from the 
astragalus. About twelve inches farther back in the bank was 
found a piece from the right pubes and a part of the left ilium 
including that part of the bone which articulates with the sacrum. 
