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bluffs where the loops bear against the older deposits of the 

 valley. It is in the face of the little bluff on the south side, 

 and about four feet above the valley bottom, that the mouth of 

 the tunnel that disclosed the human remains is located. The 

 base of the tunnel at its mouth is ten or twelve feet above the 



Fig. 9. — View in the mouth of the tributary valley looking out upon the Missouri 

 bottoms and showing the entrance to the tunnel at the extreme right. The material 

 from the tunnel modifies the natural bottom, as seen in the foreground. 



adjacent Missouri bottoms (Fig. 9). The lower four feet of the 

 little bluff is formed of a thick bed of Carboniferous limestone; 

 above this there is shale. The tunnel was started just above this 

 limestone and driven back on its gently rising surface. It was 

 carried by the Concannons seventy-two feet back from the face 



