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interment. On learning this, we proceeded to make an ex- 
cayation in the second mound, and found there also some 
bones, and a broken pipe, of a very large size, but in shape 
resembling the common tobacco pipes of the country. 
‘‘ While thus engaged, an old man, one of my tenants, 
came up to me, and inquired whether I had ever seen ‘the 
North House,’ that had been found on my property, not far 
from the place where we then were. I had never heard the 
term ‘ North House’ before, and asked him what he meant, 
‘Oh,’ he said, ‘a kind of house under ground, made of large 
flags and stones, with a passage like a large sewer lead- 
ing to it.’ The North House, to which he referred, proved 
to have been completely destroyed; the stones had been car- 
ried away for building some years previously. But one of the 
fields in my demesne at Hampton, having been usually called 
‘The North House meadow,’ although the origin of the 
name had never before suggested itself, it occurred to me as 
not unlikely that the name might have been given to it in 
consequence of one of these North Houses having been at 
some time discovered in it. ; 
‘«* With the view of ascertaining this, we proceeded to make 
excavations in different parts of the field, and at length we 
happened upon the top stone of just such a chamber as the 
old man had described. 
** It was constructed with large stones, in the rudest man- 
ner; the one stone projecting beyond that immediately below 
it, till a kind of bee-hive arch was formed: its height might 
have been six feet, and its diameter perhaps the same. There 
was a winding passage, or sewer, about three feet in height, 
and the same in breadth, constructed also of large flags and 
stones, and probably twenty yards in length, leading into it, 
and a small funnel, not more than one foot in its dimensions, 
at the opposite side of the chamber: the passage and the fun- 
nel were probably much larger, but they had been broken 
into as they approached the surface of the hill. We traced 
the side walls for a considerable distance. There was no 
