48 ^Appendix. 



The urn is small, has a round bottom, will hold perhaps 

 one-half pint. The pieces of bone were small, well preserved, 

 quite smooth and tough ; none of them were over five inches in 

 length. 



Of the three craniums, one was entire ; of another, only the 

 frontal bone remained ; the third had the frontal, parietal, and 

 occipital bones. The right squamous suture of the last was 

 crushed in. Within the skull was found a thin, sharp stone, 

 about two inches long and one and a quarter inches wide. This 

 evidently had entered edge uppermost, and narrow end first. 

 These three skulls, like the first, had their faces to the east, were 

 one behind the other, and about two feet apart. 



Some of these articles are in the Museum of the University 

 of Michigan. 



One mile and a half south from this barrow, on the west 

 shore of a lake, and the south bank of a river that makes Out of 

 the lake, are three mounds, all larger than the one first men- 

 tioned, and, perhaps, four or five rods apart. I have the word 

 of two men who dug at different times, that these mounds con- 

 tained pottery, flint implements, and one skeleton of immense 

 size, such that the lower jaw fitted over the face of the man who 

 dug it up. 



Southwest of these is another, the largest of all. Report 

 says this mound contained skeletons in a lying posture, and three 

 rows deep, one layer above another. 



Another class of remains found here is circular pits, form- 

 erly from three to four feet deep, and four feet in diameter. 

 They were used for fire, as they are filled with charcoal, burnt 

 sand, and a few traces of burnt bone. 



LORENZO V. FLETCHER. 



JUNE IST, 1875. 



