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A clo-cr examination of the land along the -liol'e liort I) \\ :i r< I . i 



well as southward, revealed many inteiv-ting condit ion-. Beginning 

 with Mr. Webb's hou-e. it wa- found that a -liort di-tain-r -a-t \\ard 

 from I In- -pot where tin- O-prey skull wa- di-covered and near tin- 

 end of tin' shell mound a -mall -ttvam of brownish water flow- into 

 tin- bay: at tin- month of tin- -tream i- a U-d of irregular, ferru- 

 ginous limonite concretion-, nio-tly connected, lint ea-ily detachable. 

 Tin- -on< -n-tioii- apjH-ar to IH at alnmt the level of the sand which is 

 marked ly ferni^inon- di-eolorat ions at the l(K.iility of the Osprey 

 skull. They re-t on a clayey and sandy deposit containing no solid 

 io<-k. proliaMy an ancient IKM! of the bay. The surface of the con- 

 cretion- neare-t the mound was seen to include some shells of recent 

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



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l'i<;. 11. S--tlon of the laycTH at the locality of the South Osprey find. a. Soil mlxe<l 

 with Hand. '.. l.i^lii flne-uralnod rock In which the human Ixmen were found, r. Darker 

 coarser-grained conglomerate containing ancient fottsils. /. Greenish sandy and clayey 

 layer. 



these concretions, which resemble those in which the Osprey skull 

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

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

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

 and al-o >onie washed-out "phosphate rocks," consisting of cetacean 

 ('< il-. appear on the beach and in the shore; thence tlv case 



southward until near the place of the South Osprey fifi 1 ' u !i<'i'' they 

 form a sultantial part of the shore. They are co\-re i the gray- 



i>h finer conglomerate above described. They exten ' ' ;ui unknown 

 distance south of this l<K'ality, and wherever thff exist the beach is 

 lined with pieces of rock, undermined by the wn\"- and broken down 

 by their own weight, a- well as with remnant "f <>ld fossils washed 

 out from this rock. A careful and re JK- a tec? arch failed to bring to 



