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This skull is even lighter in proportion than No. 1. Age between 28 

 and 33 years.'' 



On Thursdaj^ April 17, two more skeletons, in horizontal positions, 

 were found, the crania of which were preserved in fair condition. A 

 circular excavation, about three feet in diameter, was made todays 

 and a quantity of unio shells, ashes, animal remains, sherds of pot- 

 ter}^, and one bone awl were taken out. 



An earthen vessel, unaccompanied by any human remains, was dis- 



Fig. 8. Stone Pipe (G. W. Lasher). 



covered on Saturday, and an ornamented stone pipe (fig. 8) was found 

 in the same excavation, but about ten feet distant from the vessel. 



On the 21st, a portion of a skeleton, without the cranium, was found 

 a few inches below the surface. During the past five days, a strip, sixty 

 feet long, and about forty feet wide, had been dug, and but three skele- 

 tons had been found, in remarkable contrast with the results of the 

 previous week, when thirty-five skeletons, within a space not more 

 than fifteen feet square, were removed. 



On Tuesday, 22d, a pit was opened, similar to that found on Thurs- 

 day, and under the direction of Dr. H. H. Hill, who was on the ground 

 that da}^ a more careful examination was made of these curious exca- 

 vations, which have since been called " ash pits," from the fact that they 

 all contain one or more layers of ashes, varying in thickness from a 

 few inches to two or three feet in different pits. This pit was about 

 three feet in diameter, and four and one half feet deep; neither the 

 sides nor bottom show any traces of the action of fire, and it is appar- 

 ent that the excavation was first made, and the ashes deposited, as 

 ashes, in layers from 6 to 12 inches in depth, aggregating some two or 

 two and a half feet. In this ashes, which doubtless contributed largely 



