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bowl, made of gray pipestone. There were no bones or other remains 

 near it. 



We next cut down another slice along the north side of the former, 

 five or six feet wide and about twenty-five feet in length. In this we 

 went to the clay layer at bottom without making any discoveries what- 

 ever. At the east end, however, we found that the said layer of clay 

 stopped at a sharp line running diagonally across. Digging down into 

 the space not covered with the clay, we found that a "grave" or 

 excavation had been dug there to the depth of twenty inches, when 

 we again came down to the natural, undisturbed clay. At the bottom 

 of this, lying along the south-west side of the pit, and with the head 

 to the north-west, was a very much decayed adult skeleton, and mixed 

 up with the bones of the trunk were a few of the bones of a child. 



In order to uncover this pit entirely, we made a still further cut 

 northward, thus exposing, in all, some twenty-five feet square of the 

 floor of the mound. On removing the earth entirely from this deeper 

 burial-place, we found another skeleton lying at right angles with the 

 first, along the north-west side of the pit, and were greatly disappointed 

 at finding associated with the bones in this portion, which seemed to 

 have been prepared with especial care, no relics of any kind whatever. 

 This pit was of irregular form, measuring eight feet along the south- 

 west side, seven feet on the north-west, and the other sides six and five 

 feet respectively. 



This mound, though nearly of the same size of the others of the same 

 group, is remarkable for the entire absence of copper relics, beads, 

 marine shells, pottery, mica, obsidian, galena, and flint, bone, and horn 

 implements (except the scraper above mentioned). 



Mr. G. H. Mosier and Mr. Hannibal Parsons were very kind and 

 courteous, and both gave us full privilege to explore any mounds we 

 might find on their property. We opened one supposed mound on the 

 land of each, but finding no encouragement or indications of relics or 

 of work of human hands, abandoned them. 



C. E. Harrison. 

 W. H. Pratt. 



