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Mcntiou lias iilreacly been made of flurts by ]\Ir. ^Valkel• iii some 

 mounds near Tampa Bay, Florida, and therefore need not be repeated 

 here. 



While exeavatiny- that part of the Ohio caual running through Ben- 

 ton township, Cuyahoga county, it became necessary to remove part of 

 a small mound. In this, says .Mr. W. H. Price, under wliose direction 

 the work was done, were the remains of one or more skeletons, a gun- 

 barrel, and perhaps some of the mountings of the stock.' 



With one of the burials in the works of Union county, Mississippi, 

 Mr. Fowke, the Bureau assistant, found a piece of silver stamped with 

 the Spanish coat of arms, a figure of which has been given, also the 

 inms of a saddle-tree. As this locality is in the territory occupied by 

 the Chickasaws, a people visted by De Soto in his expedition, it is pos- 

 sible these articles are mementoes of the trials and hardships suffered 

 here by that unfortunate expedition. 



In the rubbish thrown out of one of the stone graves of the Hale 

 mound, Alexander county, Illinois, heretofore desciibed and figured, 

 was found a small brass Catholic medal, which we know from the 

 saints' names stamped on it can not be older than the year 1700. 



In one of the Arkansas mounds excavated by one of the Bureau 

 agents was an earthen bottle modeled after the old French decanters. 

 In another was discovered a tooth which Prof. Baird pronounced that 

 of a hog. 



A circular mound of the group at Hazen Corners, Crawford county, 

 Wisconsin, which consists of effigies and elongate mounds, was opened 

 by one of the Bureau assistants. There were no indications of burial, 

 but at the bottom, in the center, was a small pile of stone implements, 

 among which was a regularly shaped, genuine gun-flint. In some of 

 the mounds of this section the Bureau assistants found a copi)er kettle, 

 silver bracelets with Koman letters stamped upon them, silver brooches 

 and crosses; but these pertained to intrusive burials and hence are not 

 introduced into this list of cases as bearing upon the point now re- 

 ferred to. 



From mounds in Le Sueur county, Minnesota, about i miles north of 

 St. Peter, Mr. Blackistou obtained the following articles: A silver 

 wristlet with "Montreal" and " B. C." stami3ed ujjon it; tubular cop- 

 per ear-pendants; a string of thirty white china beads, a large brown 

 glass bead, four common pins, a needle, a small pearl ornament, and a 

 quartz airow jioint.^ 



From the Nintli Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Miniie 

 sota, above referred to,^ we learn that a " blue-glass bead " was obtaiued 

 by Prof. Wiuchell in one of the mounds at Big Stone lake. 



The fragments of iron implements obtained from a mound in Clald- 

 well county, North Carolina, showing undoubted evidence of contact 



I Adc. Mon., p. 146. ' 'P. 162. 



'Gfu\. .mil Xal. Hist. Surv. jrinii.. vol. I (1872-'82), |i. 047. Ninth .A.nii. Geol. Reii. .Minn., 1880, p. 104. 



