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thence, in a bottom, they came to a fort built by the 

 deceased King, described thus : — 



"There were poles some thirty or forty foot long, stuck 

 in the ground as thick as they could be set one by an- 

 other, and with these they enclosed a ring some forty or 

 fifty foot over. A trench breast high was digged on each 

 side ; one way there was to go into it with a bridge ; in 

 the midst of this palisado stood the frame of an house, 

 wherein being dead he lay buried. 



About a mile from hence, we came to such another, 

 but seated on the top of an hill ; here Nanepashemet was 

 killed none dwelling in it since the time of his death." 



Mr. Upham's theory was, or, rather, he hazarded the 

 conjecture, that the old expedition landed, perhaps, at 

 Lynn ; that the palisade fort was that which has long 

 been known as the old Indian fort, on the Marblehead 

 and Lynn road, near the junction of the road cut through 

 from Salem a few years ago ; and that the hill on which 

 Nanepashemet was killed, was the very hill on which 

 these remains were found. The distances agree very well 

 with those in Mourt's Relation, and the remains of the 

 palisadoed fort still traceable conform to the description 

 of the fort which Mourt's people saw. Whether the 

 bones of either of the bodies were those of Nanepashemet 

 cannot, of course, be determined, but there are reasons 

 for supposing that they may have been. The theory is 

 certainly plausible. 



Rev. E. S. Atwood gave some further particulars of 

 the digging operations, and complimented Mr. Cooke for 

 the exceeding care and skill which he exercised in uncov- 

 ering the remains, expressing the opinion that to his 

 patient labor the Institute was indebted for the perfect 

 state in which the bones were reclaimed and removed. 



