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into the corner of the grave, the left arm and forearm extended along the body, 
as was the right upper-arm whose related forearm crossed the trunk. The head 
was directed NNW. The grave containing this skeleton is shown in Fig. 13, the 
covering and one side of it having been removed. 
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Frc. 13.— Burial No. 8, showing skeleton, part of the grave having been removed. Swallow Bluff 
Island, Tenn. 
Burial No. 9, a stone grave whose sides formed a rude pentagon supporting a 
covering consisting of one large slab on which here and there had been placed 
smaller slabs, in some cases in one thickness or again in two thicknesses, the whole 
arrangement having an elliptical outline (Fig. 14). This stone grave, 2 feet 1 
inch in length and 1 foot 4 inches in maximum width, had a height of 1 foot 2 
inches, excluding its lower parts which entered the ground. (It is impossible in 
