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the attacliment of ligaments indicate a man of great strength, while the 

 tibias do not show any of the uunsual flattening described by Mr. Henry 

 Gillman, but are of the usual form, and the lower part of the humerus 

 was not perforated in the manner described by the same author. The 

 skull, from its great thickness, was capable of being restored by gluing 

 the edges of the fragments together. This skull is represented in Fig. 24, 

 a side view, h back ; the top, in «, Fig. 20. Kear this skeleton was another, 

 lying in the same position as the first. The two bodies were placed side 

 by side, and the latter, judging from the delicacy of the bones and teeth 

 and the thinness of the skull, was that of a woman. In the preceding 

 cut (Fig. 8) a and h represent the position of these skeletons. From 

 the appearance of the teeth the woman was in the prime of life. Both 

 of the bodies were buried in the mound with the flesh upon the bones, as 

 every bone was found in its proper jiositiou. Near the feet of the male 

 skeleton, at the point marked c in the cut, were found two largo nodules 

 of dark chert resembling the true flint of Europe. One of these was 

 but slightly chipped, while the other had been split in two near the 

 middle, and but one half deposited in the mound. This half nodule was 

 \ying face downward, and resting upon it and the ground was a remark- 

 able specimen, which maybe designated a "sun-symbol." It is a white 

 stone, perfectly round, 12-^^ inches in diameter, about one-half inch thick 



Flo. 9. " Sun-symbol," from mound near Naples, HI. 



in the middle, and 1 inch upon the edges, slightly concave upon one side, 

 and having upon the other a figure of a human hand. An idea of its 

 appearance will be obtained from Fig. 9. 

 The outlines of the hand are cut into the stone between an eighth and 



