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^ mile- north of ( )-pivv and on (In- -amc line of -hoiv is a 

 locality railed, after it- owner. ||aii-on'- landing, ami hen- al-o -ome 

 fo il human INUIC-. ron-i-tin: of a -knll and several other part- of 

 tin- -kcleton. \\cre discovered. Karly in 1880 this locality was vi-ited 

 liy Prof. Angelo Hcilprin and Mr. Joseph Wileox, and several part- 

 of a foili/ed h ii IIKIII -keleton were actually found in situ. Pro- 

 fessor Hcilprin desxTil>ed the find" as follows: 



I wits <-..ii(lnrinl to a s|Mit whr It had lieen re|*>rted a human skeleton lay 

 emlN-dd*d lii the rock. Tlie nn-k I found- to he u partially Indurated forniBl- 

 innii s:ni(lston, nMiiovtHl hut a short distance from the sea and hut harelj* ele- 

 \i\if\\ alHtve It; the condition of Its 4tft|Msurc was doubtless the result of nn-ent 

 MA waste. I was much surprised to find actually cinlx>ddcd In this rock 

 mid more or less firmly united with it the skeletal remains of a mammalian 

 which I had little difficulty in determining to IM> the -rim- homo. Most of the 

 jmrts. including the entire head, had at various times IKHMI removed hy the 

 curiosity seekers of the nclKhltorhood. hut enough remained to indicate the 

 jiositlon cxvupied hy the Ixxly in the matrix. The depression which meived 

 the head wag still very plainly marked, hut unfortunately the outline had 

 l-rrii too much ili-iurliril to ]>rnuii of any satisfactory impression l..-in- taken 

 1'nun it. I was ahle to disengage fr>m a confuse! mass of stone and skeleton 

 two of the vertehrae, which I)o<-tor IxMdy has kindly determined for me to l>e 

 in all probability the last dorsal and first lumbar. The distinctive caiuvllated 

 structure of lone is still plainly visible, but the Inrne lts<lf has IKHMI completely 

 replaced by limonite. 



The same locality was visited nfjnin the following spring hy Mr. 

 Wilcox, who obtained several specimens of fossilized human Ixines, 

 among which was a fairly well-preserved calcaneum. Finally, on 

 still another (M-casion, Mr. Wilcox secured at Hanson's landing ** a 

 piece of the rock containing the end of a human thigh Ijone, also 

 altered into limonite/' which sjHicimen he gave to the University of 

 Pennsylvania. 



THE SOUTH OSPKKY RKMAINS 



About 1888 Mr. J. G. Webb and his son-in-law, Mr. Griffith, in 

 looking for "phosphate rocks"'' along the shore, discovered almut 

 a mile and a half south of Osprey the remains of a human skeleton 

 cmU'dded in and partly projecting from the exposed nx-k. The 

 following interesting notes concefning this Iind were furnished by 

 Mr. J. G. Webb in a letter addressed to Dr. W. II. Dall, dated October 

 _".. IS'.MI: 



[The human bones embedded in rock] were found on the shore washed by 

 t-vrfv tide, luit not so always or very long. The mainland shores of the hay 



TraMartion* of the Wagner Frer Itulitutc of 8cir*cr, I. 14-15, Philadelphia. 1887. 



The no-railed phoKphato rooks ID this reiclon numlm of ancient wnter-worn fosxll 

 bonea. particularly rllw of large cetaceans. These fosalls are found, already In their 

 water worn condition, cemented In the shore rock* and are now being washed out wherever 

 the rocks are exposed to the action of the waves. 



