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which overlooks the Mississippi river, one hundred and fifty miles above the 

 mouth of the Missouri. There w^ere six mounds placed near each other in a 

 right line, commencing w^ith a small one only a few feet in height, and terminating 

 in another of eight or ten feet elevation, and twenty feet diameter. This skull 

 was obtained from the fifth mound in the series." It is a large cranium, very full 

 in its vertical diameter, and broad between the parietal bones. 



MEASUREMENTS 



Longitudinal diameter, 

 Parietal diameter. 

 Frontal diameter. 

 Vertical diameter, 

 Inter-mastoid arch, 

 Inter-mastoid line, 

 Occipito-frontal arch. 

 Horizontal periphery. 

 Internal capacity. 

 Facial angle. 



7.1 inches. 

 5.3 inches. 

 4.8 inches. 

 5.5 inches. 



14.6 inches. 



4.2 inches. 

 14.6 inches, 

 20. inches. 

 85.5 cubic inches, 



79 degrees. 



PLATE LIIL 



SKULL FROM THE GRAVE CREEK MOUND, IN VIRGINIA. 



The great mound on Grave creek, Virginia, is about twelve miles from 

 Wheeling, and not far from the Ohio river. As it is one of the largest and most 

 perfect works of the kind in North America, and as it has been excavated with 

 great care and success, I have endeavored to obtain whatever particulars have any 

 connection with the present inquiry. For these I am indebted to James W. 

 Clemens, M. D., of Wheeling, Virginia, from whose memoir, drawn up at my 

 request, I extract the following facts. 



" The Grate Creek Mound is eight hundred and thirty-seven feet in cir- 

 cumference at its base, and seventy feet in height, and is situated on a natural 

 elevation of eighty or one hundred feet above the lowwater mark of the Ohio 

 river. The mound has been for more than half a century in possession of the 

 family of Mr. Tomlinson, whose son accomplished a complete examination of it 

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