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mined it, causing it to cave away on one side, and partially disclosing 

 the contents. 



rig. 6 



Mound at Ottawa Point, IMicMgan. 



On examination, nothing was found establishing for the work any 

 great age. The utensils, trinkets, &c., were all of a period subsequent 

 to the advent of the white man. There was, in fact, no point of resem- 

 blance between this place of sepulture and those of the " mound-build- 

 ers." The bones exhumed apparently belonged to one body— probably 

 that of a woman. 



On visiting the same point some sixteen years afterward, (June, 1872,) 

 all trace of the mound had disappeared, doubtless through the en- 

 croachments of the lake. 



