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when the stone rests, the pole may touch it or be near it. Both antag- 
onists throw their poles at the same time, and he whose pole is nearest 
the stone counts one, and has the right of rolling the stone.”— 
Pratz, p. 
Mr. Braniouteclgia (Views of Louisiana, p. 256,) mentions a game 
popular among the Arikara, (Riccarees,) played with a ring, fig. 4 of 
Dr. Morton. 
Lewis and Clark also describe a game, common among the Mandans, 
resembling the one above mentioned, which was played with stones of 
this description 
The two Pca stones which were found a Mr. Chas. W. Atwa- 
ter, in a mound near Huron, and mentioned by Dr. Morton, are unques- 
tionably modern in their origin, as are also the other articles discover- 
ed by him; the human remains being those of the modern Indians— 
modern as compared with the great race of mound builders. It isa 
well known fact that the present race of Indians did, and to the west. 
‘of the Mississippi still frequently do, bury their dead in the mounds, in 
conformity with the almost universal custom which leads them to select 
bluff points and the brows of hills for their burying places. It is there- _ 
fore all important, in examining the mounds, that a proper discrimina- 
tion should be made between the various deposits, The lack of it has 
already led to many errors and some amusing blunders. It may, I 
think, be laid down as an unvarying rule, that whatever human remains 
and deposits made with them, are found within two, or even four or five 
feet of the surface of the mounds, are those of the more recent recy 
of the aborigines. 
6. Gigantic Pukaptheriains+-Wee have recently received informas 
tion from Mr. H. A. Prout, of his discovery of the remains of a Palzo- 
therium in the tertiary near St. Louis, and we are also indebted to 
him for a cast of the jaw, a view of the posterior tooth of which is 
represented below. Mr. Prout is preparing a memoir on the subject; 
and in the mean time we state the following facts from his letter. 
This fossil was found in the great northwestern tertiary belt, which 
is deflected from the north by the Black Hills, and which crosses the 
Missouri River at about latitude 43°. It was accompanied by several 
Baculites compressus, an Inoceramus concentricus, a vertebra of a 
large fish and some crystallized gypsum. The entire jaw bone, judg- 
ing from the decrease in the size of the teeth, must have been at least 
30 inches long, which far exceeds in size the Paleotherium magnum 
The face of the posterior tooth, is 4% inches in length ; and from the 
posterior side of the last tooth to the anterior side of the antepenulti- 
_ mate molar of the same side, the distance in the specimen is 11 inches. 
Me etssree length, in the line of the jaw, of but three out of 
