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among the more bighl}- civilized and agricultural of the 

 prehistoric races of America, and it was also very prob- 

 able that Salt Cave had only been used as a temporary 

 retreat. A number of fragments of the twine, cloth, etc., 

 found with the body now in the collection of the Antiqua- 

 rian Society, were exhibited side by side with similar 

 ones from Salt Cave, and were seen to be of the same 

 character. All the specimens of cloth, etc., from Salt 

 Cave were extremely brittle, and had only been preserved 

 by saturatiug in gelatine and afterwards mounting be- 

 tween glass, while those from the grave in Short Cave 

 were, from some cause, still in their natural pliable con- 

 dition. In this connection it is also interesting to record 

 the fact that the wooden bowl from the Mammoth Cave, 

 in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society at 

 Worcester, is the one which tradition gives as having 

 been found in the passage of the Mammoth Cave, still 

 known, from this circumstance, as the wooden-bowl cham- 

 ber, and it is probable that the fragment of the wooden 

 vessel found in Salt Cave was part of a similar article. 



Capt. Wm. H. Dall, of the United States Coast Sur- 

 vey, alluded to the mode of burial of the Aleutian Is- 

 landers, and of the preparation of the bodies after death, 

 by which they were partially mummified. He als« spoke 

 of the beautiful braided grass- work of the Aleuts, and 

 stated that the Eskimos made a kind of a stocking of 

 braided grass, which they wore inside of their boots as 

 an extra protection to the feet. 



