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therefore inferred that the fossil ought to be removed from the genus 

 Favosites. As regards the species, it may be stated that the diaphragms 

 were uniformly rare, without any signs of disturbed growth. The 

 height of the specimen was 7 lines. 



Ancient Relics found in Cincinnati. 



The point of the hill east of the old Brighton House, in the city of 

 Cincinnati, called Riddle's hill, has long been known as an Indian 

 burying gi'ound, but was never explored, until within the past thirty 

 days. 



On the 28th of August, Dr. H. H. Hill and G. W. Vallandingham 

 opened two graves, one of which proved to be a double grave. In the 

 single one they found a few broken bone awls, bear's tusks, flint chips, 

 human teeth in good condition, human bones badly decayed, and some 

 small flakes of mica. In the double grave they found one flint knife, 

 four flint arrows heads, several bear's tusks, the lower end of each of 

 which had been cut ofi" diagonally, so as to form a sharp edge on the 

 exterior, or side of greatest curvature ; two wolfs teeth, wiih the bone 

 ground ofi" of the low^er portion ; four beads, two made of bone, and 

 the others of the teeth of some animal ; a fragment of a sandstone 

 pipe, some small pieces of mica, human teeth, and badly decayed 

 bones. 



On the 31st of August, Dr. Hill resumed work in the same graves, 

 and found two points of deer's horns, a bone awl, some flint chips, 

 animal teeth, and more human teeth, and decayed bones. In the after- 

 noon he opened another grave, two rods east of the first, and found the 

 bones of two adults and one child, so much decayed that the sex could 

 not be ascertained ; one flat, siliceous, black-banded slate gorget, with 

 two holes in the central part, drilled from both sides ; half of a gray, 

 siliceous, banded slate gorget, ' preserving, three holes (it probably con- 

 tained six) ; half of a brown, siliceous, banded slate gorget, preserving 

 one hole (it probably had contained two) ; one limestone gorget, 

 having six holes, broken in three pieces, and much changed by chemi- 

 cal action since its burial ; some bear's tusks, cut ofl^" in the same man- 

 ner as the others, small scales of mica, and one stone hatchet, usually 

 called a bark peeler, or skin dresser. 



On the 5th of September, Dr. Hill again resumed work in the'first 

 diggings, and found two arrow heads, a number of bear's teeth, beads, 

 broken bone awls, and scalfes of mica, two fragments of a large shell 



