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of tlicsc art' ol'len liruUcii into. Id riioic ciisily cpl)t;iiii tin- aiiimul, tlie large st':i-Mi:iil 

 being treated in tlu- same manner. Tlie (|nestii>ii mav he asked as to how tlu- 

 thick, hoavv walled shells were hroken, as no j-tonc implements were found. i!y 

 e.xaniination of tiie rough exti-rior of ihe conch (I'nlgar canaliculatas), in it may 

 he fonnil an excellent implement for the purpose. Bones and pottery are also found 

 throughout the mass. The hones are ehielly those of animals taken in the chase, 

 deer, hear, lynx, alligator, dog and lish, of the latter only the vertebra^ remains. 

 The greater portion of these hones crumhie to pieces on exposure to the air. The 

 pottery is almost entirely fragmentary, no whcde vessels being found to my knowl- 

 edge, however, the restorations which have been made from large fragments would 

 indicate vessels of ten to twelve galhms capacity. The pottery of the lower layers 

 is rude and rough, and without any ornamentalion whatever, while that taken troni 

 the upper strata is better made and with some cHorts at ornamentation. 



The size of these alioriginal cooking vessels would seem to prove that the liv- 

 ing shell was heated or boiled to more easily obtain the animal. Shells of the 

 qnahaug clam (Venus mercinaria), abuiidaut in the refuse heap, are now rare on 

 the adjacent coast. Attempts have been made to determine the age of these ancient 

 heaps of rubbish, hut such determination in the light of present data, may be ((iiile 

 conjectural. However, trom the evidence it is obvious that they are not recent, but 

 must run far back into the dim ages of the jiast. It is hoped that further investi- 

 gation may throw more light upon the manners, customs, habits and liistory of the 

 people through whose instrumentality these immense accumulations were formed. 



A NoTK ON K(R K FLK.VtKK. I'.V E. M. KlNDLK. 



The |)henomenon of ntck ilexure is familiar enough, as it occurs in anticlines 

 and synclines in many regions. These natural bendings of rocky strata, however, 

 afford no data for determining the actual values of the factors producing them, 

 the pressure and the time during which it has acted. The time factor re(]uired 

 to produce bending without fracture in a solid st(me is so large as to have jue- 

 vented any except accidental experiments in this direction. 



Such an experiment I discovered two or three years ago in progress in a 

 country cemetery one-half mile south of the village of Nineveh, Ind. Over one 

 of the graves there has been placed a horizontal marble slab, which was formerly 

 supported by a brick wall eight or ten inches high surrounding the grave. At 

 the time of my first visit this wall had criunbled down along the greater portion 

 of each side of the slab, leaving it supported mainly by the portions which still 

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