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same depth, and the remains of pottery and other objects were in 

 such quantity in their vicinity as to indicate a long residence of 

 the tribe which had inhabited the spot. These occur abundantly 

 on the S. "W. side of Metcalfe street, on the margin of the little 

 brook which separates this site from the similar platform on which 

 the building for the ball in honour of the Prince of Wales was 

 erected, and they extend thence to Mansfield street, and from the 

 margin of the terrace toward St. Catherine street more than 

 half way to Sherbrooke street, or in all a space of rather more 

 than 1.00 yards in diameter. The removal of a great part of the 

 sand has much changed the natural form of the ground, but it 

 seems to have been a slightly rounded sandy knoll with a 

 little depression running diagonally through it, and the habita- 

 tions indicated by the sites of fire places seem to have encircled 

 the most elevated part of the ground in which most of the skele- 

 tons occur. A considerable part of this space is not yet excavated 

 and may aS'ord many additional remains. 



I shall now describe the objects found, beginning with the 

 human remains. Of these we have principally three skulls, one 

 female and two male, nearly perfect. The fragments of the 

 others are not in a condition to afford much information. 



1. Skull of an aged female. — This is distinctly pyramidal at 

 the vertex, with prominent superciliary ridges, receding but 

 convex forehead and elongated occiput. Its dimensions are as 

 follows, column (1) : 



(1) (2) (3) 



Longitudinal diameter Q.^5 in. 7.50 in. 7.05 inches. 



Parietal diameter* 5.25" 5.75 " 5.50 " 



Frontal diameter 4.00 " 5.00 " 4.75 " 



Vertical diameter 5.30" 5.50*' 5.50 " 



Intermastoid arch 12.00 " 13.50 " 13.50 " 



Occipito-frontal arch 13.75 " 14.40 " 14.50 " 



Horizontal circumference 19.25" 21.00 " 20.75 " 



The bones of the face and jaws are very small and delicate 

 compared with those of the male skulls. This skull is in the 

 Museum of the Natural History Society. 



2. STcull of a man, perhaps aged 50 years. The vertex in 

 this skull is not pyramidal but rounded, the forehead full and 

 the superciliary ridges by no means prominent. The occiput 



* 



Greatest immediately above the squamous suture. 



