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The first skeleton lay at the depth of two and a half feet, the 

 second at the depth of from two to possibly three and a half 

 feet from the surface. 1 The first was found accidentally and taken 

 out by Messrs. Ayers and Weills, before Dr. Sellards was notified, 

 and before any great importance was attached to the find. The 

 character of the deposits above it was not especially noticed, but 

 there is no reason for supposing that they differed from those in the 

 neighborhood, where layer No. 2 is seen to be overlain by a stratum 

 of similar, but somewhat lighter, sandy deposits covered by a layer 

 of marl. This marl ranges at this point from about 5 to 9 inches 

 in thickness, and when freshly exposed is of the consistency of 

 fresh mortar, but on exposure hardens to fairly solid rock. With 

 some wind-blown white sand and vegetable material it forms the 

 surface of the ground. 



The second skeleton lay, according to all obtainable information, 

 in some loose white sand and vegetable matter at the base of the 

 muck layer, No. 3, of the stream bed. Above, up to the surface, 

 there was only muck with irregular sandy patches. In a vertical 

 cut these localized deposits or patches give the muck an appear- 

 ance of unconnected irregular lamination, but there are no actual 

 strata. 



Skeleton No. I is that of a woman, possibly sub-adult. Skele- 

 ton No. II is that of a man, an adult of somewhat advanced years. 

 The bones of the former, according to Mr. Ayers, who discovered 

 and extracted them, "were all close together, the whole layer not 

 being over one and one-half feet in width. They were not scattered 

 at all, nor piled up." The various parts lay side by side or next to 

 one another in about the position they would occupy in the body. 

 The bones of skeleton No. II were dissociated, though lying within 

 an ellipse apparently about 7 feet in length, not counting the two 

 bones and two or three fragments found in the upper part of 

 layer No. 2, about 6 feet away. As some of the bones of the skeleton 

 tumbled out of the bank before the rest were removed, only a 

 smaller portion of the parts representing the skeleton were examined 



1 In Dr. Sellards' report on the find, in the 8th Ann. Rep. of the Fla. St. Geol. Survey, 

 p. 142, the depth is given as 4 feet, which is evidently an error; the depth indicated 

 in Dr. Sellards' illustrations, especially that on p. 141, is less than this. 





