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the grave. With the femora of the two skeletons was part of a smaller 
one. By the right humerus of the skeleton toward the south lay an- 
other humerus, likewise smaller, and by its chin, a patella. These 
additional bones had not been thrown in with the surrounding earth, 
but had been laid with care where found. The skull toward the south 
lay on its left side. The other, near the north side of the grave pit, 
rested on the vertex, which was crushed in; the lower jaw, inverted, 
lay on the right shoulder, with the chin turned toward the breast. A 
few of the bones held their form, but went to pieces when the sup- 
porting earth was removed. For 2 feet from the east end of the 
grave, scattered promiscuously through the earth, were dismembered 
bones, all small or medium in size, of two or more persons. Among 
these, the entire frame was represented; there were 3 humeri, and 
parts of at least 2 skulls. When put here some of these bones were 
whole, others in fragments; they lay in all directions and at all an- 
gles. Evidently an old grave, or graves, had been robbed to furnish 
part of the material for filling this one. 
MOUND NO. 4 
Fully three-quarters of the fourth mound was barren of anything 
worth noting. Between northwest and southwest from the center 
was a cartload of hard-burned earth, almost like brick, mixed with 
charcoal and loose soil. In this was a little pile of partially cremated 
bones, in small pieces, of a child 3 or 4 years old. In another pile 
were parts of a thick and a thin skull, a short piece of a femur of an 
adult, and the lower end of a humerus of a child 10 or 12 years old. 
Each pile occupied a space not more than a foot across, and a stone 
weighing 15 or 20 pounds lay at the edge of each. Pieces of a broken 
pot were found loose in the earth. 
MOUND NO. 5 
In the fifth mound, a flint scraper and a small flint digging tool, 
highly polished, lay loose in the earth. A foot west of the center was 
the end of a grave, irregular in shape, which extended 3 feet east and 
west, 2 feet across, and a foot into the subsoil. This contained a few 
scraps of bone, among which were teeth not at all worn. 
MOUND NO. 6 
In the sixth mound much of the earth in the upper part was soft 
and could be shoveled like sand, but elsewhere, particularly in the 
lower part, it was exceedingly hard. 
About the central part, a foot below the top, were fragments of 
burned femora; on the original surface lay a small pot broken into 
little pieces. Just south of the center a few detached bones were 
