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» have been most a around the head of the animal. Some 
small remains of the head were left oa biagge but enough to 
show that the belonged to the Mastod There were, also, 
found mi with these ashes and bone oe partly protruding 
out of them, a large number of (ies Sikes of rock, which had 
evidently been carried thither from the shore of the Bourbeuse 
river, to be hurled at the animal by his vies it divas for the above- 
mentioned layer of clay was entirely ee even the smallest 
layer of ashes, etc., varied, in thickness, from two to six inches; 
from which it may be inferred that the fire had been kept uP. for» 
some length of time. It seemed that the burning. of the 
- and the hurling of rocks at it, had not satisfied its desteoyers for 
I found, also, among the ashes, bones, and rocks, several a 
, a stone spear-head, gate some = ee bah which were <6 
oe out in the presence of a number nesses, coneees of 
ple of the sok birknod: ak | by the novelty of the 
sola sam This layer of ashes, etc., was cov te by strata of 
alluvial deposits, consisting of clay, sand, and soil, from eight to 
nine feet thick, forming the bottom of the "Bourbeuse, in general; 
_and on the surface, near the centre of the spot on which the ani- 
mal had perished, was situated the spring, the water of which was 
____used for domestic purposes; and it was in digging to clear out 
' the spring, that the existence of bones there had been first dis- 
eee covered by the owner of the land. 
-—-It_ was about one vical after this excavation, er I found, at 
- another place, in Benton ounty, Missouri, in the “bottom” of the 
de Terre river, shies ten miles abo 
| stone arrow-heads mingled 
entire skeleton mentioned 
discove! ; 
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