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shaped projections based in it. All this will be better understood by the engraved 
representations in Figs. 1, 2 and 3. 
The dark lines in Fig. 1 represent the fragment of pottery and segment of 
the figure remaining on it, and the dotted lines the lost segment, or the figure 
restored as supposed to have been sculptured on the’ vessel. Fig. 2 represents 
the base of the repositories as outlined in the clay. Fig. 3 represents a side view 
of the repositories. 
Flg 1—Full Size. 
What is the peculiar shape of these repositories and figures emblematic of? 
Possibly of the sun. The people who conceived and fashioned them must have 
had some knowledge of geometrical lines and a considerable degree of intelligence. 
All who have examinéd the repositories, without exception, with whom I 
have conversed, agree that the vegetable mold must have formed over them since 
they were made. They rest on Glacial drift, and must have been formed since 
that deposit. But the questions remain to be answered—were they excavated in 
the Lacustrine clay, or were they erected before its deposit and covered in by it ? 
It seems difficult for a primitive people to plan and make an excavation of such 
shape; and these repositories may have been formed of some kind of cement 
upon the surface, before the Lacustrine time and covered by its deposits, and 
since undergone disintegration. 
Marion Centre lies on the southeastern slope of the summit dividing the 
