HUMAN RELICS OF LANSING, KANSAS 759 



upon the interpretation of the time and mode of deposition of 

 the formation embracing the relics. 



As already stated, the tributary valley is not occupied by a 

 constant stream, but by periodic run-off. The channel at present 

 is in a slightly aggraded and apparently still aggrading stage. 

 It opens out upon the Missouri bottoms about two hundred feet 



Fig. 7. — View of Concannon's house and environment seen from the south-south- 

 west. In the foreground and center is the ravine leading down from the south, 

 described in the text. The locality of the skeleton is nearly under the small white 

 spot near the dark clump of trees on the slope at the left of the house. The ravine 

 joins the tributary valley just at the left of this and the latter joins the Missouri bot- 

 toms in front of the house. The Missouri bottoms stretch across the upper part of 

 the view, with the river (in its new course) and the opposite bluff in the extreme back- 

 ground. 



from the locality of the relics, with perfect adjustment, and its 

 recent deposits were slightly fanned out upon the bottoms of 

 the main valley on our first visit, but had been largely washed 

 onward by the rain that intervened before the second visit, illus- 

 trating the nature of the present adjustment. The depth of the 



