846 iiEPORT — 1888. 



Chloras Bay, 2 miles above ; mound on shore of bay f mile long, and 100 

 yards wide, 1 to three feet thick ; anciently 8 to 14 feet high ; shells removed and 

 converted into lime for agricultural purposes. Remains of several ancient pits in 

 which the oysters were steamed with hot stones and water. 



Paleo and neo axes and celts, hammer-stones, mullers and pestles, arrows 

 (hunting and war), spears, knives, scrapers, gorgets, fragments of ceremonial 

 ■weapons, shards of pottery, &c. 



Howell's Point, 2 miles above ; large mound and shell-field, whose extent could 

 not be determined as the soil was under cultivation. The greatest deposit of shells, 

 12 to 14 feet. A few rude paleo implements and utensils. 



Roadleu Manor, 3 miles above ; field on eastern shore of Reid's Creek ; mound 

 nearly a mile long by 100 or 200 yards wide, greatest depth 3 or 4 feet. Shells 

 decayed. Indian remains ploughed up. Axes of both types, celts, hammers, arrows, 

 spears knives, and pear-shaped pendant of serpentine and drilled net-sinker. 



Bolinghroke Creek, 2 miles east; 15 or 20 acres covered with shells, greatest 

 depth 3 feet. Paleo axes and celts, nuclei, pottery and arrows, spears, knives 

 and scrapers of jasper. Find jasper in situ on the shore. Very important archaeo- 

 logical discovery. 



Chancellor's Point, 2 miles above ; ancient mound 24 feet high. Remains of 

 Indian found buried in the shells. Polished axes, hammers, arrows, spears, knives, 

 pottery, &c. 



Qoose Point, 2 miles above. Shells 1 to 3 feet deep and cover many acres. 

 Ancient camp on top of mound. Forty years ago the circles where the Indian 

 Hodges were pitched could still be traced. Hammers, arrows, pottery, amygdaloid 

 celts fourteen inches in length and superb double-faced polished axes. 



' Ingleside.' 2 miles above. Mound short and wide on high shore. Only 1 to 

 ;3 feet remaining. Half a million of bushels removed since 1867. Hammers, arrows, 

 •pottery and superb double-faced polished axes. 



Jamaica Point. 1 mile up the river. Small shell-field in peach orchard. 

 Rude implements. I^arge mound (remains of) in field beyond. Shells not more 

 than one foot deep. Implements of quartzite and rock crystal. 



Outram Manor. 1 mile above. Shell-field in orchard, depth superficial. 

 Many polished axes and arrows, spears, knives, &c., of quartzite, argellite and 

 iasper. Find an abundance of large jasper pebbles on shore. Colour red, yellow, 

 "black and variegated. Cleavage excellent. 



Bamberg. 2 miles above. 5 to 7 acres covered with shells at a depth varying 

 from 1 to 3 feet. Oblong ungrooved axes, celts, arrows, hammers, pottery and 

 small implements. 



Cox's Farm. 1 mile above. A scattering shell-field, polished axes, nuclei, 

 arrows, pottery and flint-chips. The oyster beds cross at this point, and no more 

 mounds are found above. The river now becomes swampy, except at its channel on 

 the opposite shore. 



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Chapter III. — The Sepulchres of Dorset. — The Tomb of the Kings. — Circular 

 ossuary discovered in Cambridge while building the new jail in 1883. 16 feet in 

 diameter and 7 feet high. Contained the remains of sixteen Indians seated on 

 rocks, facing inward. Probably men of high rank. 



Pre-Columbian Necropolis. — At Sandy Hill. Ossuary secondary, communal; 

 remains cremated by eleven fires. Found 16 feet below the surface in the face of a 

 cliff 70 feet high. Over the ossuary was a mound of shells and the remains of an 

 ancient fishing camp. Depth of shells 1 foot. 



Ossuary T-shaped, the horizontal bar 15 feet long, 4 feet wide, and 2 feet thick, 

 extending parallel with the river ; the upright bar 30 feet long extending rearward 

 into the hill, the other measurements corresponding with transverse portion. 



The writer exhumed all of the remains, 300 skeletons. 



Crania of much ethnological value, now in possession of the Army Medical 

 Museum. 



Among many interesting pathological conditions found are the following : — 



