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knee of the other femur and the ankle of one tibia (the two being 
crossed like a narrow X) lay under the hip and ankle joints of the 
first two. The third tibia was under the latter two bones; beneath 
it, in turn, parallel to those at the top, was the fibula; the lower end 
of this fibula, or, if not, the corresponding end of still another fibula, 
-was broken off and lay under the uppermost femur. 
The description of this interment, if it properly may be so called, 
is thus elaborated to give the reader a perception of the singular 
practices of which the explorer is continually finding evidence. It is 
quite obvious that these bones were entirely denuded of flesh before 
being deposited, and that the manner in which they were arranged 
was intentional and in accordance with some ceremony or belief 
whose significance must be altogether a matter of conjecture. 
A foot above the bottom, 74 feet west of the center, were teeth of 
an infant and small shells, all very much decayed. Five feet north 
of the center, 3 feet above the bottom, were arm or leg bones, too 
fragmentary to uncover in position; 2 feet south of these, no doubt 
belonging to the same skeleton, was a skull lying on its left side, 
with the face toward the west; the teeth were worn flat. 
On the bottom, 94 feet west of the center, was a skull resting on 
its left side, with the top toward the south; the bones belonging with 
it lay, bundled, toward the north, presenting every evidence of 
skeleton burial, the vertebre being under the leg bones, which lay 
compactly together with the knee end of a tibia touching the head 
of afemur. The teeth were worn flat. 
Kight and a half feet west of the center was the north end of a 
pavement of thirteen slabs, the largest in average size yet found, 
covering a space 3 feet 10 inches north and south by 2 feet east and 
west. Under these slabs, on the natural surface, was the extended 
skeleton of a woman, lying on its back, with the head to the south- 
east, the face being turned to the left. Lying at the vertex of the 
skull, as if worn in the hair, were many shell beads having the 
border of the opening ground off. At the right side near the waist 
line were similar beads, and fragments of a skull which had belonged 
to an infant only afew months old. The few small pieces still remain- 
ing of the woman’s right arm lay in a position indicating that it was 
extended to hold or protect the body of the child; the left forearm 
lay across the waist. There were no stones over the feet, the right 
knee, the infant’s remains, or the part of the skeleton above a line 
running from the left shoulder to the right hip; but they extended 
beyond the body on the left. 
At the center, in a hole dug a foot into the subsoil, was an adult 
skull lying on its left side, facing southwest; in a compact bundle, 
lying against the face, were all the bones of two legs. South of these, 
extended in natural position, were bones of a small person; the feet 
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