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or north side of the canal, and a toe bone of an adult, also from 

 the north side of the canal. 



In the muck layer on the south side, in the base of which skeleton 

 No. II occurred, there were found, according to Dr. Sellards, "an 

 abundance of pottery, many bone implements, arrowheads, and 

 other small flints." 



Speaking further on this point, Dr. Sellards says (p. 143) : 



A considerable amount of broken pottery is found in this horizon, par- 

 ticularly at the locality on the south bank 450 to 475 feet [bones of skeleton 

 No. II were located from about 460 to 473 feet] west of the bridge. Bone 

 implements are also numerous and were made evidently to serve a diversity 

 of purposes. Well-worked flint arrowheads are found also, as well as occasional 

 spalls from the manufacture of flints. The pottery, flints, and bone imple- 

 ments, however, are not confined to this locality on the south bank, but are 

 found also in the same horizon on the opposite side of the canal. 



A few small flints and two bone implements were found in 

 stratum No. 2 (p. 140). The flint of the several chips and imple- 

 ments, which must have been brought from a considerable distance, 

 is quite similar in the two deposits; and the bone implements of 

 the two sections seem identical in character. 



The portion of the muck of the stream bed on the south side of 

 the canal nearest where the bones of skeleton No. II were dis- 

 covered was found to be a moderately compressed, wet mass of 

 leaves and other detritus. Many of the leaves, though generally 

 imperfect, were still so pliable that they could be unfolded and 

 straightened out, and were still fairly elastic. In this muck are 

 trunks of trees and branches or roots, partly in a fair state of 

 preservation, partly softened or rotted. 



During the clearing work carried on by the writer, fossil animal 

 bones were found to be fairly numerous in layer No. 2, beneath the 

 muck of the stream bed. There were uncovered possibly several 

 hundred specimens of this nature. They were isolated, small 

 and large fragments, some apparently waterworn, with a few 

 individual bones, and parts of turtle shells. The largest individual 

 specimen was the tooth of a large herbivore. Two or three frag- 

 mentary fossilized bones were also obtained from a sandy band in 

 the lowest portion of the muck deposit. 



