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about the size of a man’s hand, as a mortuary tribute. Presumably, the ab- 
origines, who made a deposit of this kind in another instance at this place, con- 
sidered the gift as at all events better than nothing, an opinion, however, with 
which the investigator of stone graves is not likely to agree. 
Fig. 15.— Burial No. 12. A stone box-grave, З feet 8 inches by 2 feet 5inches, over all. Swallow 
Bluff Island, Tenn. 
Burial No. 11. This grave, 1 foot 2 inches from the surface, was not a box- 
grave, like the rest, but a mere arrangement of slabs in one thiekness, 3 feet 4 
inches long by 2 feet 2 inches wide, placed over the bones of a child, which lay 
4 inches below. 
Burial No. 12, a few inches from the surface, was a fine example of the stone 
