244 Ancient Bones and Shells. 
when it was probably a mighty stream, compared with which, 
it is now a mere brook. There are other skulls in this town 
taken out of the same hill, by the persons who, in order to 
make a road through it, were engaged in taking it away. 
These bones are very similar to those found in our 
mounds, and pr obably belonged to the same race of men. 
These people were short and thick, not exceeding gene- 
vally five feet in height, and very possibly they were not 
more than four fect. os inches. These skeletons, when 
first exposed to the atmosphere, are quite perfect, but after- 
-wards moulder and fall into pieces. Whether they were | 
overwhelmed by the deluge of Noah, or by some other, J 
know not, but one thing appears certain, namely,—that wa- 
ter has deposited them | here, together with the hill in which, 
for so many ages they have reposed. Indeed, this whole 
country appears to have been once, and for a considerable 
period, covered with water, which has made it onn VaAsT 
CEMETERY OF THE BEINGS OF FORMER AGES. 
Verebratula pennata, &§c. &c. 
Sept. 24th, 1819.—1 send you four drawings of articles 
found by myself, (see plate I.) No. 1, represents what is - 
to me an incognitum ; I do not find the like in Parkinson’s 
** Organic Remains,” nor in Sowerby’s ‘ Mineral Con- 
chology.” The drawing represents it exactly. It is a 
carbonate of lime. You see but two sides, or the half 
of it, yet from them you may get a good idea of the 
whole. No. 2, 3, is a petrified shell, classed by Sowerby 
under the genus Terebratula, although this species is a non- 
descript. ‘ would propose for ithe name of “ terebratula 
pennata,” as the projections on its sides may well represent 
wings. I would thus describe it—rectangular, middle of the 
front, greatly depressed ; the depression striated crosswise ; 
the strie extending to the beak ; ten deep indentations on 
each side of the depression ; the lower valve greatly eleva- 
ted, corresponding with the upper valve. —The margin deep- 
fy and angularly serrated, with teeth corresponding with 
ihese in the other valve. A straight line from the hinge to 
the extremities of the wings. Beaks rather curved, with an 
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