00± ETIINOLOOr A>*D LBCBLMOTOBY. 



PO*^] + 15 [Pb CI + 3 (3 PbO, VO 3 )]. Hence it appears that PO s and VO» 

 are isomorphoua, 



Erhatum. — Iu the note on Graptolitee (p. 388) for Bryoza read Bryozoa. 

 The Curator of the Institute will feel greatly obliged by tbe loan of any 

 specimens of Graptolitee or Trilobites in the possession of members. 



E. J. C. 



ETHNOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY. 



INDIAN KKMAIN-. 



Tlie principal facts contained in the following notice of the discovery of Indian 

 remains in the vicinity of Orillia, County of Sirncoe, accompanied with tropical 

 marine shells, and copper and other relies, are derived from an account in a recent 

 number of the Toronto Globe. Indian mounds have been repeatedly opened in 

 that neighbourhood ; and we have iu our possession crania and sepulchral relics 

 found in one of these, which was explored in 1854. One of the skulls betrays un- 

 mistakeable evidence of the stroke of the tomahawk with which the old Indian 

 met his death. The relics in the present case, however, have been found in hol- 

 lows to which it would appear the term Burrow is applied : probably as a distinc- 

 tive variation from that of the old Saxon Barrow, or Sepulchral Monnd 



" About six miles from Orillia the North River crosses the Coldwater road, 

 which runs on the old portage between Lake Couehiching aud the Georgian Bay, 

 and firms a natural valley with low heights on each side. On the northern height, 

 about a quarter of a mile from the road, an Indiau burrow was found last spriug. 

 Perhaps," adds the writer from whom we quote, "our readers may understand by 

 a burrow a raised mound of a peculiar shape, but such is not the case. It is 

 merely a slightly depressed hollow, of an oval shape about ten feet iu length, and 

 eight in breadth. Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish it from the depression 

 caused by the roots of a fallen tree. The discoverers of the one in question, on 

 removing the surface earth, came upon layers of bones in various stages of decay 

 and near the bottom they found a number of copper kettles, two large shells, some 

 beads made of bone, and a quantity of hair. No pipes or tomahawks were found. 

 The number of dead interred there must have been at least from 150 to 200, as 

 one individual counted no less than 70 sculls that were thrown out, exclusive of 

 those left in the burrow. The kettles are of superior workmanship, of various 

 sizes, iu excellent preservation, aud tastefully formed ; all of them have had iron 

 handles, some of which are much corroded or entirely gone. A few have rims of 

 iron, very much decayed around their tops." 



Some of the beads have also been described to us as of glass, coarsely made ; and 

 the shells appear to have been specimens of the large tropical pyrulre, repeatedly 

 found along the shores of our northern fresh-water lakes, furnishing unmis- 

 takeable evidence of an intercourse carried on with the Gulf of Mexico, or the 

 regions of Central America. In the present case the accompanying relics appear 

 to indicate no very remote date for the sepulchral depository. From the iron 

 rims and handles of the vessels, and the glass beads, they must at least be as- 

 sbmed to a period subsequent to the intercourse of the Indians with Europeans; 



