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animals, burned into charcoal. Xo bones found could be saved, as 

 they were very soft. 



Caikn (3) 



This was similar in construction to (1) and (2), as is shown in 

 figure 4. The wall, along the outside, measured 14 feet on the south, 

 13 feet on the north, 15 feet on the west, and 14 feet on the east. 

 The inclosed space was 10 feet across each way. Some one had dug 

 out much of the south end ; the northern end was undisturbed. 



The prior excavation had barely missed, near the west wall, a few 

 fragments of an adult skull and three teeth. About even with the 

 middle point of the west wall, 2 feet from it, was evidence of the 



burial of an adult — pieces of bone 

 "^^^L.-JlJ'^ l^r-) and skull, and some teeth. North 



Q 



^-C22) of these, near the northwest corner, 



^ (_T were fragments of two adult skulls, 



CO ^ Avith one of which were some beads 



Q^ 1. C2l made of shells of water snails; 18 



^^ -- |-^ of these were recoA^ered, all more 



^ y^ or less decayed. Between these two 



Uc^ ^ skulls were parts of a child's skull, 



\) Q^ the teeth not yet through the bone. 



^ /" S Inclined flat stones in the east- 



J ^\S ^^'^^ IvAii of the grave, the tops 



f^°l ^C /^C'\^ leaning eastward, denoted other 



burials: but nothing was found 



Fig. 4.— Outline of Calru (3), Lost Hill. , ' ,,, , 11 n 2. 



under them, although small flat 

 stones laid on the original surface indicated the bottom of a 

 grave. 



Evidently several burials, of which all traces have disappeared, 

 were made in this vault. 



Owing to the practical identity of these three graves, the poor 

 returns, and the difficulty of working in a tangled mass of tough 

 roots without displacing the stones so greatly that their proper 

 position became a perplexing question, the remaining three were 

 not excavated. 



EXPLORATION OF THE GOURD CREEK CAVE (S) 



Near the mouth of Gourd Creek, on the north side, is a cave which 

 has acquired much local reputation from its size and also from the 

 evidence it affords of a long-continued occupation by the aborigines. 

 It is easily reached from the road which passes in front; wagons can 

 be driven into it and there is ample space for them to turn and 

 pass out. Formerly it was much resorted to as a pleasant place for 



