206 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



E. G. Squire also remarks, in Abor. Mon. of New York, pp. 125-6, 

 that— 



" The mounds of the West can be regarded only to a limited extent 

 as the burial places of the people who built them, * * * ^^j ^^Q 

 must seek elsewhere foi* the general deposition of the dead of the 

 Mound Builders.'^ 



Skeleton No. 374, a child about eight years of age, was also taken 

 up to-day; position horizontal, head north. 



Januar}^ 21st, skeleton No. 375, an adult in horizontal position; 

 length 5 feet 6 inches, depth 20 inches, head southeast, and directly 

 under a large oak tree. On the 22d, four inches below this skeleton, 

 another adult skeleton (376) was discovered in the same position and 

 direction, with its head also under the tree. A small vessel was found 

 near the right of the cranium, but so surrounded with roots as to 

 necessitate its removal in pieces. 



Skeleton No. 377 was that of a child about eight years of age, depth 

 20 inches; a mere heap of bones irregularly disposed, head southeast, 

 face downward. A small stone flesher was found in the leaf mold near 

 these remains. 



On Saturday, January 24th, a small earthen vessel was found, unac- 

 companied by and about ten feet distant from an}' human remains. 



An ash pit was also opened to-da^-, from which was taken out of the 

 leaf mold, at a depth of 24 inches, three earthen vessels. Four inches 

 west of the pit, the cranium of an adult male skeleton (No. 378) was 

 uncovered; position horizontal, head east, length 5 feet 6 inches. Par- 

 allel to this was an adult female skeleton (No. 379) in the same 

 position, head east, eight inches from the edge of the pit. At the side 

 of the female la}^ the remains of an infant, probably two years of a^e. 



The above mentioned vessels were undoubtedly deposited with this 

 group of skeletons and do not properly belong to the relics found in 

 ash pits in which no perfect vessel has 3'et been discovered. 



Mondaj', January 26th, skeleton No. 381, an infant probably 4 3^earsof 

 age, was found about six feet northwest of the oak tree; these remains 

 probabh^ belong with the group exhumecT on the 22d (Nos. 375-6). 



Januarj' 27th, three skeletons were removed. No. 382 was an adult 

 in horizontal position, head east, depth 18 inches, with the lower extre- 

 mities extending under a large walnut stump. No. 383 an adult male 

 in same position, at a depth of four feet; the length of this skeleton was 

 five feet four inches. No. 384 was an adult female in horizontal posi- 

 tion, head south, length 5 feet 4 inches, depth 4 feet 3 inches; the bones 

 of the right leg and thioh were missing. 



