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Mound number two contained, also, a chamber constructed of stone, 

 eight and a half by eight and a half feet, internal linear surface, and three 

 and a half feet in vertical height, with a doorway in the centre of the south 

 wall two and a halt feet wide. This chamber contained large quantities of 

 burnt human and animal bones, burnt clay, wood ashes and charcoal, ex- 

 tending from the plane of the base of the wall to within eighteen inches of 

 the upper surface. Many fragments of humian crania were found, but none 

 sufficiently intact to preserve their outline, but, from their appearance, no 

 -doubt were of the same type as those found in mound number one. In the 

 southeast corner of the chamber, at a depth of eighteen inches, the cra- 

 nium which I next present you, was found. From its situation in the 

 mound, and from its better preservation, and the fact that it differs so wide- 

 ly in type from the other crania, no doubt it was an intrusive burial, and 

 belongs to our modern aborigines. 



Mound number three exhibits no appearance of a stone chamber, so far 

 as examined, and perhaps contains none, but may have contained a chamber 

 of sun dried clay, every vestige of the walls of which has been destroyed 

 by the great lapse of time since its erection. This mound, too, contained 

 burnt human and animal bones, burnt clay, wood ashes and charcoal, so cir- 

 cumscribed in limit, and intermingled at the plane of the base of the mound, 

 as to render it probable that the deposit accumulated on the floor of a 

 chamber. It presents, too, other remarkable features in its contents. In 

 addition to the human bones apparently, and which, no doubt, are, though 

 in a fragmentary condition, of the same type as those found in numbers 

 one and two, other bones are found which, if they prove to be human on 

 further examination, as they most probably will, are certainly the most re- 

 markable yet found, of which we have an account, throughout the entire 

 world. Some of the bones found in this mound, which evidently are human, 

 are so very diminutive as to preclude the idea that they can belong to the 

 same race to which the ether bones belong, or to any race of men now in- 

 habiting the known regions of our globe. Of this type were found several 

 fragments of crania, fragments of one lower and two upper maxillary 

 bones, belonging evidently to adult individuals. Some animal bones were 

 found in this mound, in respect to whieh I withhold any expression of opin- 

 ion at present. They may prove to be those of the reindeer. These very 

 remarkable waifs of a by -gone age I also have the pleasure of presenting 

 for your e;xamination. 



Mound number four, like number three, has no appearance of contain- 

 ing a stone chamber, nor have I observed any burnt clay, wood ashes, or 

 evidence of fire having been used in it, as far as opened. Only human 

 bones were found in this mound, which are of the same general type as 

 those found in numbers one and two, but some of them are more strongly 

 marked, and are all in a fragmentary condition. I present you for exami- 

 nation from this mound, two frontal bones, one upper and two knver maxil- 

 lary bones, and one femur. The specimens, you will perceive, indicate a 



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