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been displaced tlien the body or rest of the skeleton was displaced with 

 it. The probability is that some small animal burrowing into the earth 

 found the body before decomposition had destroyed all the fleshy parts, 

 and entering the skull through the foramen magnum used the cranium 

 for a home. This must have taken place prior to the accumulation of 

 vegetable mold within the cranium. But this will not account satis- 

 factorily for the gravel stone and charcoal within the cranium nor the 

 tooth within the orbital cavity. The following are the measurements of 



the cranium : 



Inches. 



Longitudinal diameter 6 



Parietal diameter 5| 



Vertical diameter 5 



Intermastoid arch 12 



Horizontal circumference 18f 



The cranium nowhere bears any traces of artificial flattening. On 

 placing it side by side with a skull taken from a mound in Liberty Town- 

 ship, Butler County, Ohio, a great difference presents itself in every 

 feature. Compared with an Indian skull from the west bank of the 

 Great Miami, same county, still another difference is seen besides its 

 noticeable smallness. The only feature in common is the raised line 

 along the sagittal suture. But between it and a skull from a mound 

 near Belpre, Ohio (noticed farther along), a great similarity is readily 

 seen in every characteristic feature. The skull was found where it had 

 been placed by the burial party. Had it not been for the few bones 

 j)rotruding from the bank it would have been missed. The remainder 

 of the skeleton had been washed away by the encroachments of the 

 river. The fire-heai) had gone out and was partly buried before the in- 

 terment, and vegetable mold had commenced to form over it. In cov- 

 ering up the body some of this mold was thrown immediately over it. 

 The probability also is, that some shells had been deposited prior to the 

 inhumation. The mold above the skull gave no evidence of having 

 been disturbed. 



Within 3 inches of the skull, and on the same level with it, an atlas 

 of the deer was found ; on the west of the skull, and removed about 2 

 feet, yet on the same level, were excavated a chert chip and one of the 

 bones of the foot of the deer; immediately below the skull, and lying 

 on the beach, were pieces of the lower and upper jaw of the deer ; also 

 the scapula and one of the bones of the foot of the same animal, besides 

 many fragments of pottery. This pottery, like all the rest found, was 

 made of clay mixed with crushed river shells. 



The next examination was made a little farther west. The vegetable 

 mold was over a foot in thickness, and the remains of the shells and 

 works of art also a foot in depth, including ornamented pottery and 

 fragmentary bones in abundance, together with a human atlas. A 

 broken implement was obtained here. It is composed of porphyry, and 



