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vating beyond the edge I found a layer of undisturbed gravel. 

 Several pits have been sunk by men and boys at various points 

 nearer the railway track since I commenced operations — some few, 

 indeed, before. One of the excavators informed me he found the 

 skeletons regularly arranged in a circle, heads touching, feet out- 

 wards. These, I presume, were the bodies of such as had more 

 recently died than others, whose remains were cast up promis- 

 cuously, as described in the paper by our President on " The Discov- 

 ery of Burlington Bay." 



I commenced a fresh excavation near the track, but was com- 

 pelled to leave it for the present at least. I have obtained from it 

 already some wampum, brass bracelets, much decayed, as might have 

 been expected from their environment. 



I was reluctantly obliged to postpone further researches until 

 next year in consequence of cold weather setting in. 



I think it probable that there are some undisturbed burial pits 

 between the railway track and Mr. Lottridge's house. The gentle- 

 man in question obtained some years ago a remarkably fine collect- 

 ion of Indian relics from an ossuary close to his residence, together 

 with a silver chalice, which I suppose belonged to one of the French 

 Jesuit Missions. I understand Mr. Lottridge, quite recently, un- 

 earthed other Indian remains in putting down some fence posts not far 

 from the place where I have been working. 



