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miles from Tokio. With the ready and sympathetic aid of his 

 friends and colleagues, the officials, professors, and students of the 

 University, a very extensive collection of pottery, ornaments, tablets, 

 implements (horn, bone, and stone), bones, and shells was made 

 and arranged ; and with the careful and obliging cooperation of 

 Japanese scholars, artists (draughtsmen and lithographers), and 

 printers Prof. Morse has been enabled to produce this excellent 

 fasciculus. It is neatly printed, profusely illustrated, and published 

 altogether in a highly creditable form by the Japanese. The paper 

 being of native manufacture, we may note that, from the composi- 

 tion (by printers unacquainted with English) to the binding, the 

 mechanical production is entirely Japanese. 



Excepting the Japanese " imprimatur " and Japanese titles and 

 numerals on the plates (to allow of their being used in a native 

 translation of the work), there is nothing but European appearances 

 about it. 



The length of the prehistoric shell-deposit exposed by the railway- 

 cutting is about 8!J metres, with a thickness of 4 metres in one 

 place. Another exposure occurs about 95 metres off; and culti- 

 vated fields to the south bear evidence of similar deposits. The 

 mound or mounds are nearly half a mile from the shores of 

 Yedo Bay. In some places the sea has receded about six miles in 

 this bay. The former contiguity of these and other shell-mounds 

 to river-banks or sea- coasts, and, in the latter case, the frequent 

 proofs of the local retreat of the sea, are carefully insisted upon. 



Objects (implements) found at Omori are : — Earthen : cooking- 

 vessels, hand-vessels, ornamental jars, ornamental bead, tablets, 

 spindle-whorl (?), and disk, shaped from the bottom of broken 

 vessel. Stone (lava, slate, schist, and jasper) : hammers, celts, rollers, 

 skin-dresser (?), and mortar. Horn : awls, handle, prongs of deers' 

 antlers, and implements of unknown use. Bone : fish-spine needles, 

 bird-bone with two lateral holes, cube from deer's metatarsal, and 

 deer's as calcis, probably used as a handle. Miscellaneous : arrow- 

 point from boar's canine, and shells used as paint-cups. 



Objects (implements) found in other kitchen-middings, but not 

 found at Omori : flint or obsidian implements, arrow-heads, spear- 

 points, scrapers, skinning-kuives, mortars and pestles (?), drilling- 

 stones, ornamental stones, stone net-sinkers, pipes, worked shell, 

 wampum, stone beads. 



Of bones found at Omori there are remnants of those of man, 

 ape (?), monkey, deer, boar, wolf, and dog, also of a large cetacean 

 and a large tortoise, and of small mammals, of birds, and of fishes. 

 The human bones bear evidence of having been subjected to canni- 

 balism. A fragment of one platycnemic tibia was discovered at 

 Omori ; but several were subsequently found in an immeiise shell- 

 mound at Onomura, in the province of Higo, Island of Kiushiu. 

 Prehistoric shell-deposits are also known at Otaru, on the western 

 coast of Yezo, Hakodate ; several also within the city limits of 

 Tokio. These will be described subsequently ; but, as far as com- 



