686 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 



of this shell, aud they were are as large as they ever grow in this lati- 

 tude. Scallops also were once numerous, but now are entirely extinct. 

 The cabbage palm and the j^elican have also vanished within the memory 

 of old men." 



Wiggins, John B., announces the discovery of the mound where the 

 Indians buried their dead after the battle between the Shawues and 

 the Nanticohes, at Nanticoke, Hanover Township, Luzerne County, Pa. 



Williamson, George, calls attention to works near Marksville, 

 La. South of that place is an embankment extending from a bluff on 

 an old channel of the Red or some other river, a distance of a mile or 

 more. The embankment is from 8 to 12 feet high and is flanked on 

 the outside by a wide, deep ditch. In several places appear to have 

 been sally-ports, and large old forest trees are growing on the bank. In- 

 side the work are two large mounds, one of them covering several acres. 

 In this vicinity are a great many mounds, some of them of great size. 

 The remains are on the first high land on the bank of what was once a 

 river channel, communicating with the Atchafalaya. 



WiLTHEiss, C. J. incloses testimony of A. J. Templeton aud Joseph 

 Defrees with reference to finding two tablets in a gravel bank within 

 the corporate limits of Piqua, Ohio, on the land of Wilson Morrow. 

 One of these tablets was 15 feet from the surface, which was covered 

 with 4 feet of loam. On the surface of the object were "characters"^ 

 and in the center lead inserted. The second was found the next day in 

 the loose gravel which had caved down. 



