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sisted of five mounds, a line of embankment and a large stone grave 

 cemetery. 



One of the smaller mounds contained over one hundred stone 

 grave burials and yielded many splendid specimens of aboriginal 

 workmanship. Some of these are of great importance in throwing 

 light on the Cumberland Valley Indians having come under the in- 

 fluence of the thought and traditions of the Aztecs. Many of the 

 ornaments, while of local make, were strikingly Mexican in type. 



The graves in this mound yielded many traces of curious and 

 unique customs; such as the burial of two or more bodies in one 

 coffin, the raking to one side of the bones of a former burial and 

 placing a new body in coffin, the burial of fleshless bones in bundles; 

 the burial of crania, unaccompanied by other bones, in small stone 

 boxes; the burial of children with adults in such positions as to 

 arouse suspicion that the child may have been placed in the grave 

 alive. 



Mr. Myer has explored many of the caverns and rock-shelters of 

 the Cumberland Valley. Pictures of several of them are shown, and 

 samples of rare burial mattings from these shelters are displayed. 



He shows a picture of the great rock shelter at Lover's Leap, 

 where the ashes and kitchen refuse, mingled with rock from over- 

 head, reach a depth of thirty feet. This shelter is of great age. 

 From its military position of great difficulty of attack, and because 

 it faced the south and was sheltered from the north, east, and west 

 winds, it was admirably adapted to the needs of savage man. It 

 was doubtless inhabited by primitive man from the time he first 

 reached the valley. 



November 26, 1915. 



CAUSE OF THE STYLOLITIC STRUCTURE IN THE TEN- 

 NESSEE MARBLE. 



BY C. H. GORDON, UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE. 



(Abstract.) 

 This paper discusses the nature of the structure known as Stylo- 

 lites, with special reference to its occurrence in the marbles of East 

 Tennessee. The various theories proposed to explain this structure 



