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found mired in the mud and in an entirely helpless condition. 



All the bones which had not been burnt by the fire had kept 

 their original position, standing upright and apparently quite 

 undisturbed in the clay; whereas those portions, which had 

 been exposed above the surface, had been partially consumed 

 by the fire. * * . . . . 



There were, also, found mingled with these ashes and bones, 

 and partly protruding out of them, a large number of broken 

 pieces of rock, which had evidently been carried thither 

 from the shore of the Bourbense river, to be hurled at the 

 animal by his destroyers ; for the above-mentioned layer of 

 clay was entirely void of even the smallest pebbles : whereas, 

 on going to the river, I found the stratum of clay cropping 

 out at the bank, and resting on a layer of shelving rocks of 

 the same kind as the fragments ; from which place, it was 

 evident they had been carried to the scene of action. . 



I found, also, among the ashes, bones, and rocks, several 

 arrow-heads, a stone spear-head, and some stone axes." 



In a second case the same writer assures us that he found 

 several stone arrow-heads mingled with -the bones of a mas- 

 todon. " One of the arrow-heads lay underneath the thigh- 

 bone of the skeleton, the bone actually resting in contact 

 upon it ; so that it could not have been brought thither 

 after the deposit of the bone; a fact which I was careful 

 thoroughly to investigate.'' 



In the valley of the Mississippi, Dr. Dickeson, of Natchez, 

 found the os innominatum of a man with some bones of 

 the Mastodon ohioticus, which had fallen from the side of 

 a cliff* undermined by a rivulet ; but, as Sir C. Lyell has 

 already pointed out, it is perfectly possible that this bone 



