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and Diflelpliis virginiana, part of the lower jaw. Upon sifting tlie sand the 

 following additional species were obtained : Sylvilagus sp., teeth and part 

 of lower jaw; Dasypus sp.?, dermal plate; Sigmodon sp., teeth; Ncoflber 

 alleni, teeth; Chlaniythvnnm septcntrionalis, dermal plates; .B/ar/na sp. ; Cryp- 

 totis floridana; bird, humerus and part of radius; Alligator mississippiensis?, 

 teeth, dermal plates; batrachian, leg bone; snake, jaw and fangs; as well as 

 acorns and fragments of wood. Of these fossils the scapula of the deer was 

 found within a l"ev,' inches of the human astragalus and at the same level, while 

 the other specimens were found nearby, none of them being more than 5 feet 

 from the human boues. 



Additional human bones: In April, 1916 — 



[P. 142] while excavating in the north bank of the canal, 419 feet west of 

 the bridge, Mr. Weills obtained at the contact line between strata Nos. 3 and 2 

 a single human toe bone. From the same bank, 450 feet west of the bridge and 

 at approximately the same place in the section, Mr. Weills obtained in June, 

 1916, an unworn human molar tooth. Since the canal at this place is fully 100 

 feet wide from bank to bank, it is doubtful if these specimens, although at the 

 same place in the section, belong to the skeleton found directly opposite in the 

 south bank. 



Artifacts: In April, 1916, while excavating in layer No. 2 on the 

 north bank, 370 feet west of the railroad bridge, Mr. Weills obtained 

 in "■ immediate association " with various bones of fossil animals — 



[P. 134] a fragment of bird bone and a tip of a proboscidian tusk, which have 

 markings which apparently were made by tools. These two specimens were 

 both found in place near the base of stratum No. 2, on the north bank, 370 feet 

 west of the bridge. 



[Pp. 130-139.] In stratum No. 2, at the locality on the south bank. 460 feet 

 west of the bridge, Frank Ayers found in place a thin sharp-edged flint which 

 undoubtedly is a spawl from the manufacture of some kind of a flint imple- 

 ment. The place of this flint in the bed is about a foot farther in the bank than 

 the human bones and 3 or 4 feet farther east. . . . Upon sifting the sand 

 from this stratum at this locality five additional small flints were obtained. 

 They may be spawls, although it seems more probable that some of them at 

 least are small implements. 



[P. 140.] With the small flints obtained fi'om sifting the sands [of stratum No. 

 2] in which the human bones were imbedded was found a piece of a bone imple- 

 ment. Subsequently, while sifting the sand from this stratum about 10 feet 

 farther to the west (475 feet west of the bridge), a second small implement 

 and also a small flint was found. Tlie bone implements are polished and nicely 

 finished. The second implement found, which is practically complete, is sharp 

 pointed at one end and beveled at the other, probably for insertion into a shaft. 

 While neither of these implements were found in place, the sand was carefully 

 handled, and there was little or no chance of their coming from any stratum 

 other than No. 2 of the section. 



All the human bones recovered are mineralized. Comparison with 

 a fossil animal bone from the same locality and a human bone from a 

 sand mound near Vero gave Dr. Sellards the folloAving results: 



