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ANTHROPOLOGY. 



communication with the others. A few human bones were found in G, 

 but that does not determine it to be a place of sepulture. 



In Montgomery County, on the bluffs of Prairie Fork, near its mouth, 

 in the southeast quarter of section 9, township 47, range 6 west, there 



Ancient Works on Noix Cr., 

 Pike Co., Mo. 



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Fir?. 5. 



Fig. 6. 



19Jt. 



Fig. 7. 



are remains of a similar walled burial place to that on Salt Eiver, Pike 



County. The walled space is 10 feet square, and the walls were 2 feet 



high when I saw them in 1859. A few pieces of human bones were 



found. 



MOUNDS OF CLAY COUNTY, MISSOURI. 



Mr. E. P. West, of Kansas City, has enumerated about twenty-live 

 mounds situated near the boundary line of Platte and Clay Counties, 

 Missouri, located on the highest points of the Missouri Bluffs, most of 

 them containing concealed rock vaults, generally directed north and 

 south. 



In the summer of 1878, iu company with members of the Kansas City 

 Academy of Science and the Kansas State Academy of Science, I spent 

 a day in exploring certain of these mounds, which were found to be 

 located on the tops of the higher bluffs, 250 feet above the Missouri bot- 

 toms, from which there is a line view of the river above, below, and 

 across. We noted seven mounds, as represented in the annexed sketch, 

 Fig. 8. 



Three of these (1, 2, and 3) form a nearly equilateral triangle, and 

 are about 40 to 45 feet apart. Externally they seemed to be nicely 

 rounded earth mounds, hut digging into them each disclosed regularly- 

 built walls about 3 feet high, exactly at right angles to each other, and 

 inclosing a space 7 feet !» inches square. The walls were constructed 

 of thin even layers of limestone laid Hat upon each other, and built 

 up with a regular, perpendicular face, in fact much more true to 

 the line than many so-called masons would place them. The crypts 



