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In August last I secured at Station 1, ^ mile nortt of Station 2, 

 two very perfect copper spear heads and an awl, the latter weighing 7f 

 ounces. Here are the remains of a people who certainly existed long 

 before any European ever visited these American shores to tell the 

 story. Station 3, Plate 10, is one mile south of Station 2, and adjoin- 

 ing an old military post, known as Camp Smith in the early days of 

 Green Bay. Here in a corn field during the summer of '76, I found 

 a piece of ground comprising about 2 acres strewn with fragments of 

 pottery, varying from minute particles to a couple of inches in size. 

 Many pieces were nearly decomposed so that they would crumble into 

 dust at the touch. I gathered some six quarts of these fragments 

 which I preserved. From time to time I assorted them into two 

 classes as to difference in ornamentation and form of rim. Selecting 

 according to ornamentation I found about 40 different vases represent- 

 ed that could be definitely re-produced. Taking 50 other fragments 

 more or less mutilated, but still definite as to their relative place in the 

 vase, that is in the rim, we have no less than ninety or a hundred sep- 

 arate vases here represented. Taking these facts into account, 

 together with the condition of the ground which has been un- 

 mistakably deeply colored by the abundance of this material, I con- 

 jecture that the spot may have been a place where the pottery was 

 extensively manufactured. Near by, human remains have been and 

 still are found in abundance. Two fragments suggest the use of the 

 lathe; one of them belonged to a vase that had a series of concentric 

 horizontal bands of ^ of an inch running around it, and their regular- 

 ity could scarcely be produced in any other way. The other had a 

 set of lines and bands so perfectly drawn upon a smooth field that it 

 is impossible to conceive they could be produced by hand. A third 

 fragment found at Station 2 is of the same pattern as No. 1, and while 

 it shows that the pattern No. 1 has been imitated in the case of No. 3, 

 it bears unmistakable evidence ot the fact of having been done by 

 hand. The fish and bird bones found at Station 2 show at least a 

 certain relation to the customs of the Indian tribes that come within 

 the range of history. We know very well that it was a common prac- 

 tice of the North American Indians to place in the grave food, cloth- 

 ing, trinkets, etc., for the use of the spirit until it arrived at the 

 happy hunting ground. This practice implies a use of the vase for it 

 is rarely anything is found in a condition to positively indicate this 



