MOUND-BUILDERS AND PLATYCNEMISM IN MICHIGAN. 375 



The mound shown on the southwest side of Chambers Island [Fig. 5] 

 was noticed and partially examined by me several years ago. It was 

 then much undermined by the waters of Green Bay; the contents, prin- 

 cipally human bones, being somewhat exposed by the giving way of the 

 high bank. I have lately learned that within the last few years this 

 mound has totally disappeared, owing doubtless to the cause just 

 referred to. It belonged unquestionably to the larger class of burial- 

 mounds, and was probably of like age and origin as the mound at the 

 northwest end of the island. 



Fig. 5 



MoTiads, 



Oiiamlbers Island, Green Bay, 



"Wisconsin. 



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In this connection it is of importance to refer to the late discovery by 

 Mr. Dawkins of platycnemic men at PertM-Chwaren, in Denbighshire, 

 Wales, and to Prof. G. Busk's valuable notes on those ancient remains.* 

 Professor Busk and Dr. Falconer were the first, I believe, to call atten- 

 tion, in 1863, to this particular conformation of the leg-bone in the 



* Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, January, 1871. 



