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" 111 the hollow between the bills on which these two aucieiit works 

 are situated is another small ditch, quite shallow, inclosing a circle of 

 about 82 feet in diameter." 



In Collins's History of Kentucky, page 295, you wili see it stated that 

 in 1845 an ash tree, supposed to be four hundred years old, growing on 

 the ditch of the larger work, was cut down. 



Of course, time and cultivation have altered greatly the appearance 

 of these remains since these descriptions were made, but the plow has 

 not yet entirely obliterated the ditch, even in the places which have been 

 the longest in cultivation, and frequently liiut arrows-heads, and pieces 

 of pottery, etc., are observed on the surface. Once a large deposit of 

 new arrow-heads, made of horn-stone, were plowed up. 



SHELL HEAP IN GEORGIA. 



BV D. BUOWX, OF L.VMBERTVILLE, NeW JeUSEY. 



Your mention of receipts from " shell-heaps "' reminds me of perhaps 

 the largest shell-heap in the South, on the island of Osabaw, below 

 Savannah. It had not been disturbed when I saw it, some thirty years 

 ago, and may not yet have been, as the island is not in a traversed 

 route. It is one of the largest of the sea islands, and was probably 

 long ago a royal residence. When the island was assigned by Ogle- 

 thorpe to one of his companions, ]\Iorel, ancestor of my wife, it was 

 occupied by droves of wild horses and cattle, with various large and 

 small game. When afterward his sons were sent to England for edu- 

 cation, peltry and furs from the island were exported to meet their ex- 

 penses. 



If the mound has not yet been disturbed persons curious in such mat- 

 ters migbt be induced to cause its excavation. 



REMARKS ON AN ANCIENT RELIC OF MAYA SCULPTIRE. 



Bv Dk. Arthur Scuott. 



In presenting to the Smithsonian Institution the accompanying relic 

 of Maya antiquity, the donor wishes to add some remarks, which may 

 be interesting to the ethnological reader. 



This specimen was received from Sehor D. Juan 

 Manzano, M. D., of Valladolid, a once considerable 

 town of Eastern Yucatan, where it was giv^en to him 

 some years ago, as having been picked up among the 

 famous ruins of Chichen Stza. 



The material of which this little piece of art has been 

 cut is a semiagatized xyolite, still bearing tbe marks of silieified conif- 



