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The exposure in the canal bank at the place where these bones were found 

 is shown in the accompanying sketch and in the photograplis. . . . The top 

 surface of stratum No. 2 here, as elsewhere, is irregular, the irregularities being 

 fill(Hl by the overlying deposits. At the spot where the human bones were 

 found, owing to stream wash previous to the deposition of the overlying deposit, 

 the fresh-water stratum. No. 2 of the section, is only 18 inches thick. The 

 human bones were found in this sand about 10 inches above the base. The 

 overlying alluvial beds are stratified, and, as usual, conform to the irregulari- 

 ties of the undeiiying formation. The human bones at this place were found 

 and removed by the writer in the presence and with the assistance of Isaac M. 

 Weills and Frank Ayers. The first bone found was a right astragalus ; the 

 second bone taken in place was the right external cuneiform, which lay at the 

 same level and about 10 inches from the astragalus. About 12 inches farther 

 back in the bank was fomid a piece from the right pubes and a part of the loft 



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Fig. 5. — Detail of the section of south l):uik from aliout 470 to 478 feet west of the bridge. 

 Horizontal and vertical scale, 1 inch equals al)out 2 feet. Human bones were found 

 at or near ihe contact line between strata 2 and 3. The strata Nos. 2 and 3 correspond 

 to strata 2 and 3 of the general section. No. 3 is an alluvial deposit made up of 

 alternating layers of oUnd and mucli which were undisturbed. (After Sellards.) 



ilium, including that part of the bone which articulates with the sacrum. 

 Upon sifting the sand in which these bones were imbedded there was obtained, 

 in addition, two phalanges, a section from a limb bone, and some other human 

 bone fragnipnts. 



The dividing line between strata 2 and 3 of the general section here as else- 

 where is well marked and unmistakable, and the human bones lay in stratum 

 No. 2. Tlie overlying laminated deposit is undisturbed, and hence the bones 

 can not represent a recent burial. The vertebrates associated with these bones 

 are listed in a subsequent paragraph. 



A list of fossils — 



[P. 139] found in stratum No. 2 in association with human bones, flints, and 

 implements on the south bank of the canal from 460 to 470 feet west of the 

 bridge. The bones f()UMd in place in stratum No. 2 at this place include 

 the following: Odocoileus sp., left scapula and teeth; Elcphas coluiiihi, tooth 

 fragments; Equiis Icidyi?, part of a tooth; Tapirus liaysiif, part of a tooth; 



