Penjylvania, Philadelphia. 139 



Mr. Bart ram fhewed me a letter from 

 Eajl Jerfey, in which he got the following 

 account of the difcovery of an Indian grave. 

 In the April of the year 1744, as fome 

 people were digging a cellar, they came 

 upon a great flone, like a tombftone, which 

 was at laft got out with great difficulty, and 

 about four feet deeper under it, they met 

 with a large quantity of human bones and 

 a cake of maize. The latter was yet quite 

 untouched, and feveral of the people pre- 

 fent tafled it out of curiofity. From thefe 

 circumftances it was concluded that this 

 was a grave of a perlon of note among the 

 favages. For it is their cuftom to bury 

 along with the deceafed, meat and other 

 things which he liked beffc. The ftone 

 was eight feet long, four feet broad, and 

 even fome inches more where it was broad- 

 eft, and fifteen inches thick at one end, but 

 only twelve inches at the other end. It 

 confifted of the fame coarfe kind of ftone, 

 that is to be got in this country. There 

 were no letters nor other characters vifible 

 on it. 



The corn which the Indians chiefly cul- 

 tivate is the Maize, or Zea Mays, Linn. 

 They have little corn fields for that pur- 

 pole. But befides this, they likewife plant 

 a great quantity of Squa/loes, a fpecies of 



pumpions 



