152 GLEANINGS FROM NATURE. 



4. Rectangular flakes of stalagmite or satin-spar, 



varying in size from an inch or two square to 

 pieces 8x3x1 inches, or even larger, with occa- 

 sional traces of charcoal intermingled 28.0 inches. 



5. Charcoal : 0.5 inch. 



6. Flakes of stalagmite 4.0 inches. 



Six quartzose bowlders, weighing from three to six 

 pounds, were found scattered through the mass which 

 we threw aside, two of them within a few inches of 

 the bottom. They were worn with use, and on the sur- 

 face of two or three of them were depressions which 

 appeared to be finger marks due to excessive use. 

 At any rate, they must have enabled the workman to 

 retain the rock hammer more firmly in his grasp. 



The remains of horns of five different deer, which 

 mostly crumbled when disinterred, ajad numerous 

 small bones, also too much decayed to identify to 

 what animals they formerly belonged, were found at 

 intervals in the trench. 



By digging in a few other spots it was found that 

 an area 14x14 feet, on top of this hill and at the base 

 of the column, was covered to an average depth of 

 three and one-half feet with the particles of stone 

 quarried. In addition to this, no less than twenty 

 tons of the material had been pitched over the hill. 

 Much, if not all, of this additional space was formerly 

 occupied by stalagmitic material, the base of the col- 

 umn flaring outward on this side, and when the space 

 already mentioned as having been quarried above the 

 debris is taken into, consideration, there is little doubt 

 but that more than 1,000 cubic feet of the stalagmite 

 has been broken loose. 



