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north, with the face to the east. The skull was crushed, probably by 

 the weight of the earth. No relics were found with it, but an oyster 

 shell lay upon the bones of the hands, which were folded before the 

 face. Fire-cracked stones also lay upon and near the skeleton. A 

 small pocket of blackened earth immediately surrounded the skeleton, 

 but the other soil within the black boundary was hard, compact, yel- 

 low earth. About 8 inches above there was a deposit of oyster shells 

 about 2>^ to 3 feet th'ck above the bones. 



The Secretary read the following review of 



Recent Literature Relating to Staten Island. 



"Underground Water Resources of Long Island, New York. A. C. 

 Veatch and others, Professional Paper No. 44, U. S. Geol. Survey 

 4to., pp. 394, pis. i-xxxiv and figs. 1-71 in text, Washington, D.C., 1906. 



This paper begins with a chapter on the geology of Long Island as a 

 necessary prelude to the intelligent understanding of the underground 

 water condition. A discussion of the general principles relating to 

 such waters is followed by an exhaustive discussion of the facts gathered 

 in the course of careful investigations on Long Island, and the theo- 

 retical conclusions derived from them. 



Data in regard to 919 wells are recorded and tabulated and their 

 locations indicated on maps. From the information thus gathered and 

 recorded the depths of the principal water-bearing horizons have been 

 ascertained, the rate of flow measured, and the scources of supply more 

 or less accurately determined or suggested. 



Relatively shallow wells, confined to the superficial Tertiary and 

 Quaternary deposits, were found to vary in their conditions according 

 to local conditions, as would naturally be expected, and neither the 

 depth at which water might be obtained, nor the amount of flow 

 which might be expected, could be accurately predicted in a search 

 for water in these deposits. The deeper wells, however, showed the 

 presence of at least two well-defined water-bearing horizons, the 

 lower of which, designated as the " Lloyd sand," belongs to the Creta- 

 ceous series of deposits. It is from the latter that most of the flowing 

 wells of Long Island obtain their supply, and this horizon is shown to 

 have a quite uniform dip or slope towards the southeast of about 80-100 

 feet per mile, with a strike approximately parallel with the coast line 

 of the adjacent mainland. 



On the north shore of the island, from Lloyd's Neck, westward, the 

 top of this horizon is at a depth of approximately 200 feet below sea 

 level while at Barren Island on the south shore it is at a depth of 



