684 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 



ravine the original opening was closed. In the Marietta Works* a line 

 of embankments leads from the mound inclosed by a circle to the- 

 square containing 27 acres. Recently, in cutting down a portion of this- 

 embankment, near the fence, the workmen came upon a circle composed 

 of sandstone pestles and round balls, arranged radially, the balls alter- 

 nating with the pestles. 



MoNTFORTH, Warren. There are located in the vicinity of New- 

 Liberty, Owen County, Kentucky, a few mounds. There are a number 

 of mounds in the "bottoms " along the Ohio Eiver, and on the hill-tops- 

 not tiir from the Kentucky Eiver. There are others in secluded spots^ 

 One of them, about 50 feet in base diameter, and 15 feet high, is situated 

 at the junction of two small streams, about a mile and a half from tho 

 Ohio Eiver, in Gallatin County, surrounded on all sides by high hills. 

 It has been cultivated a number of years and many relics have been 

 found. 



Null, Ja^vies W., sends the following account of mounds, «&c., in 

 the neighborhood of Eeel-Foot Lake, in Western Tennessee, a body of 

 water 20 miles long and from 2 to 5 miles wide, formed by the sinking 

 of the earth during the earthquakes of 1811 and 1812. Near Thomp- 

 son's landing is a group of seven mounds within a space of 3 acreSy 

 circular in outline, 5 feet high, and 20 or 25 in diameter. Some were 

 bare, others had large trees growing upon them. A large tree up- 

 rooted revealed the structure of one to be a layer of soil over a heap of 

 sand. One-fourth of a mile north is a group of eight, very similar to 

 the former in every respect. A few hundred yards further north is a 

 group consisting of a central mound, about 3 feet high, kidney-shaped^ 

 100 feet long, and 40 to 50 feet wide, surrounded by a number of circular 

 mounds 2 to 3 feet high. Several isolated mounds were discovered 

 larger than those in groups. Dyer, Obion, and Lake Counties are ali 

 said to be rich in aboriginal remains. 



Palmer, Edward, reports mounds and graves at Niles Ferry on 

 the Tennessee Eiver, at Chattanooga, and at points near Nashville. 



Peet, S. D., announces that he has been prosecuting the survey of 

 the mounds of Wisconsin during the past year at his own expense. 



Eice, H. B., announces the discovery in South Florida of crania 

 having a peculiar shape. " They are without foreheads or depressions 

 at the root of the nose. A number were buried close together, inverted, 

 and in proximity to normal skulls erect in position, all partly decomposed. 

 The crania do not exhibit evidences of flattening." 



EusBY, H. H., describes a cave near Silver City, N. Mex. 



* "Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley," by E.G. Squier and E. H. Davie r 

 plate xxvi. — Smithsoitian Confrihutions, vol, i. 



