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and ashes raised, *was six cartloads. There was also a 

 parcel of burned' brands, or pieces of wood, charred at 

 one end, found at the same depth. These were birch 

 and beech, and -though soft, sufficiently entire to be 

 ascertained and distinguished. On many of the pieces 

 there were marks of edged tools, and of their having 

 been split by human hands. These pieces of burned 

 wood filled a corn basket, of the capacity of two bushels. 



In penetrating* to this depth they passed common soil, 

 yellow gravel alid stiff clay; and they found water at 

 the very place where the charcoal, ashes and wood lay. 

 The soil above was overgrown with ancient trees of 

 hickory and oak. 



I remember, that petrified bones, apparently of a whale, 

 were brought from the shore of Chesapeake bay, near 

 the place where the river Patuxent enters it, to the City 

 of Washington, by Mr. O'Neale. 



In the geographical description of the country around 

 Baltimore, by Dr. Horace H. Hayden, there is a fact con- 

 cerning organic remains. In digging a well in that part 

 of the city east of Jones's falls, called Old-Town, a log 

 and a nut of the black-walnut-tree, were found twenty- 

 one feet below the present surface, in a good state of 

 preservation. 



The grinder of an elephant was dug out of the ground 

 by the side of Mmarsh, in Queen Ann's county, on the 

 eastern shore of Maryland, while opening a ditch. It 

 differs, as Dr. Hayden observes, in some respects from 

 the African as well as from the Asiatic elephant's grinder. 

 The depth of this tooth is nine inches ; the length of the 

 grinding surface nine ; breadth four and a half. It ha? 



