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A closer examination of the land along the shore northward, as 

 well as southward, revealed many interesting conditions. Beginning 

 with Mr. Webb s house, it was found that a short distance eastward 

 from the spot where the Osprey skull .was discovered and near the 

 end of the shell mound a small stream of broAvnish water flows into 

 the bay; at the mouth of the stream is a bed of irregular, ferru 

 ginous limonite concretions, mostly connected, but easily detachable. 

 The concretions appear to be at about the level of the sand which is 

 marked by ferruginous discolorations at the locality of the Osprey 

 skull. They rest on a clayey and sandy deposit containing no solid 

 rock, probably an ancient bed of the bay. The surface of the con 

 cretions nearest the mound was seen to include some shells of recent 

 species, which may have formed part of the great shell heap. In 



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FIG. 11. Section of the layers at the locality of the South Osprey find. a. Soil mixed 

 with sand. &, Light fine-grained rock in which the human bones were found, c. Darker 

 coarser-grained conglomerate containing ancient fossils, d, Greenish sandy and clayey 

 layer. 



these concretions, which resemble those in which the Osprey skull 

 is held, were found also small pieces of ordinary Indian pottery. 

 For a considerable distance east and south of this locality no rock is 

 exposed, but about half a mile to the south ferruginous concretions 

 and also some washed-out &quot; phosphate rocks,&quot; consisting of cetacean 

 fossils, appear on the beach and in the shore; thence they increase 

 southward until near the place of the South Osprey find, where they 

 form a substantial part of the shore. They are covered with the gray 

 ish finer conglomerate above described. They extend for an unknown 

 distance south of this locality, and wherever they exist the beach is 

 lined with pieces of rock, undermined by the waves and broken down 

 by their own weight, as well as with remnants of old fossils washed 

 out from this rock. A careful and repeated search failed to bring to 



