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by Indian doctors for the erection of " sweat-houses." The tribes now 

 here seem to have been the true aborigines and claim to have sprung 

 from the adjacent hills. Rock paintings are found in abundance. One on 

 the north bank of Kaweah River, eighteen miles northeast of Visalia, con- 

 tains pictures of fishes, owls, and rabbits. The paint is about the color 

 of red lead and very durable. The natives bury their dead in cemete- 

 ries, the graves grouped by families. The body is folded in a sitting 

 posture with the head between the knees. After burial the ground is 

 leveled off, and small stones which the family can identify mark the grave. 

 Large pots or basins have been found carved in granite rock, from 1 to 3 

 feet deep, and from 5 to 8 feet in diameter, holding from one to ten bar- 

 rels of water each. They are thought by some to have been used in the 

 same manner as the trapicJie of Chili, for grinding ore. The exact 

 locality of the most noted group of these pots is forty-five miles east 

 of Visalia, three miles north of the east fork of the Kaweah River, and 

 near the head of a creek called Lake Canyon. 



Brayton, G. M. — Gives information of old ruins five miles north of 

 Camp Verde, Arizona, on a point of rock 50 feet high and 300 feet from 

 the Rio Verde. 



Cooper, J. G. — Describes cave in Kern County, California. 



McAllister, A. A. — Mentions a shell mound in Berkeley, Alameda 

 County, California, on the block bounded by Second and Third, and Uni- 

 versity and Bristol streets. 



Poston, C. D. — Correspondence with reference to the preservation of 

 the Casa Grande in Arizona. 



Yates, L. G. — Describes crania from mounds in Alameda County, 

 California. 



NEW MEXICO AND UTAH. 



Aldrich, Charles. — Describes pottery pipe, from ruins on San Juan 

 River, New Mexico. 



Dellenbaugh, F. S. — Remarks that many hundreds of groups of 

 picture-writings are to be seen on the rocks in Southern Utah, Nevada, 

 and Arizona. 



Meigs, General M. C. — Describes stone mound on the summit of a 

 pass through a range of mountains two or three miles east of Mohave 

 stage station, on the Gila River, Arizona, sixty or seventy miles above 

 Yuma. It is of rough heaped stones, 12 feet long, G feet wide, rudely 

 resembling a tortoise, with smaller mounds resembling the head and 

 neck, legs and feet, and tail. There are many mounds in Arizona; one 

 on the Pinal Mountains gives evidence of extensive buildings divided 

 into numerous departments, around which may still be found broken 

 pottery and stone implements. 



Metcalf, Henry. — Long correspondence from, concerning cave near 

 Silver City, New Mexico. 



Olmsted, Frank. — Mounds on Fort Cameron United States mili- 

 tary reservation, township 29 south, range 7 west, Salt Lake meridian, 



