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the last fortnight, the graves washed out by the creek. Three skeletons, 

 one of which was laid bare and revealed the burying-ground, had still 

 remained in the bank of the stream, which is very swift in the winter, 

 and had worked out here a small bight. Some stone slabs were also 

 found, but our spades soon worked the virgin soil of the bluff. We 

 made search in the bed of the creek for some implements, which may 

 have remained there, but found nothing. They were either washed to 

 sea or carried away by passers-by. 



In conclusion, I will state my opinion that there are but few places 

 left on our coast south of San Francisco Bay which promise returns in 

 Indian relics so valuable as the results of my work during the last year, 

 and that in a short time, say iive years, when the plow of the settler 

 shall have obliterated the last signs which now still guide the collector 

 in finding the graves, the implements that come then to the surface 

 will be destroyed or scattered among different people, and thus forever 

 lost. 



