244 Ancient Bones and Shells. 
when itwas probably a mighty stream, compared with which, 
it is now a mere brook. There are other skulls in this town 
taken out of the same hill, by the persons who, in order to 
make a road through it, were engaged in taking it away. 
- These bones are very similar to those found in our 
mounds, and probably belonged to the same race of men. 
These people were short and thick, not exceeding gene- 
rally five feet in height, and very possibly they were not 
more than four feet six inches. These skeletons, when 
first exposed to the atmosphere, are quite perfect, but after- 
wards moulder and fall into pieces. ether they were 
overwhelmed by the deluge of Noah, or by some other, 
know not, but one thing appears certain, namely,—that wa- 
ter has deposited them here, together with the hill in which, 
for so many ages they have reposed. Indeed, this whole 
country appears to have been once, and for a considerable 
period, covered with water, which has made it one VAST 
CEMETERY OF THE BEINGS OF FORMER AGES. 
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Terebratula pennata, &c. &e. 
Sept. 24th, 1819.—I send you four drawings of articles 
io me an ; I do not find the like in Parkinson’s 
*‘ Organic Remains,” nor in Sowerby’s ‘“ Mineral Con- 
chology.” The drawing represents it exactly. It is @ 
carbonate of lime. You see but two sides, or the half 
of it, yet from them you may get a good idea of the 
whole. No. 2, 3, is a petrified shell, classed by Sowerby 
under the genus Terebratula, although this species is a non- 
descript. I would propose for itthe name of “ terebratula 
pennata,” as the projections on its sides may well represen 
