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shells and broken deer bones ; but the presence of these was probably 

 not intentional, as the whole arrangement seemed to have the nature 

 of a votive offering. This was the only perfect vessel found in the 

 entire course of the explorations. It is of the ordinary " cocoanut 

 form," and is represented in figure 6. 



Seventy feet in was a skeleton, on the left side; the bones were 

 soft and came out in small fragments. This was fully 6 feet below 



Fig. 6.— Pot from Goat Bluff Cave. 



the present surface, but some of this earth was piled up from earlier 

 excavations. 



Beyond this point the ground had been dug over to such an extent 

 that further examination seemed useless, and the work was concluded. 



Throughout tlie deposit of black earth, ashes, and roof dust were 

 scattered irregularly arrowheads and knives of flint, some types of 

 which are seen in plate 10; mussel shells; fragments of bones from 

 food animals; bone perforators, some of which are shown in plates 

 11 and 12; potsherds; hammers; pestles; two or three mortars; a 

 grooved stone ax of granitic rock, presented in figure 7; and an 

 abundance of flint chips. 



