FOWKE] THE LANSING SKELETON 479 
As there seemed no prospect of profitable results from further 
investigation in this direction, work in chamber A was brought to 
an end. The portion next examined is that marked B in the 
diagram. 
From a point on the east wall of the tunnel immediately opposite 
the position of the skeleton a space of 5 feet each way, north and 
south, was marked off. Within these lines a drift was carried in as 
nearly at a right angle as the nature of the material to be removed 
would permit. The southern half of this block—that is, the 5 feet 
south from the skeleton—was first dug out for a distance of 5 feet, 
thus cutting out a square of these dimensions. 
The lower portion of the clay, next to the shale, was closely filled 
with rocks of various sizes up to 100 pounds in weight; they were 
mostly brownish or yellowish on the outside, as if from weathering, 
and had given the clay a distinct tinge of their color, At about a 
foot above the shale the stones began to thin 
out, the clay in consequence assuming its 
natural blue color. Within less than 2 feet 
more the stones almost disappeared and the 
clay took on a decidedly lighter tinge; so much 
so, that the men spoke of it as “ white.” 
Figure 14 represents a section of the north 
wall of this cut—the first 5 feet east and west 
directly east from the place of the skeleton. 
A faint brownish streak running diagonally 
across the upper portion, to the east side of a 
large rock between the clay and the loess, is F's 14-—Section in 
not shown. There is also omitted a thin fa ee 
streak of limelike matter of the same character as that observed in 
the east wall of chamber A; it follows a devious way through the blue 
clay about where the change of color begins, with a branch reaching 
diagonally upward to the west end of the large rock above. 
There was a decided dip to the southeast in this block; so much 
so that the rock-bearing blue clay ran out within a short distance 
and the lighter colored uppermost clay came down to the shale just 
at the corner. 
The 5-foot block lying north of the part last figured was next 
removed. Along the front (west) face of this the clay seemed to 
reach its greatest elevation above the rock floor, though very little 
higher anywhere than in the section just shown. No examination 
was possible north from here; the strata dipped to the east, though 
not so much as toward the southeast. A north and south section 
at the rear of the 5 feet now removed, or midway between the east 
