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At the gravel bed where the bones were found in a pocket of 

 sand, besides sand and gravel, pebbles of all sizes occur up to I 

 foot in diameter, those of 3 to 4 inches in diameter being most 

 abundant. They include granite and granitic schist, Medina sand- 

 stone, Clinton limestone, Onondaga limestone and chert, some light 

 colored quartzite, local Portage rock and some pieces of shale, 

 usually concretion-like in shape, from which the outer shell readily 

 scales off. A rock with small vertical fucoids is also found, prob- 

 ably " Calciferous " limestone. There is no indication of stratifica- 

 tion or assortment by water, although the pebbles are often well 

 rounded and water-worn. 



The form of the hill is that of a drumlin, which may have been 

 slightly modified by later glacial waters. The west and north slopes 

 are the steepest with the highest point near the north end. The 

 south slope is less steep than the north and the east is a gentle decline. 

 To the south as far as East Koy creek the plain is almost level. 

 This is not regarded as a lake bottom, although floods from melting 

 glacial ice may have surrounded the hill and reworked some of the 

 material which was redeposited as a sand and gravel bar at the south 

 end of the hill. The present shape of the hill suggests that some 

 modifications have taken place since it was built by the ice, and the 

 presence of the sand pocket in which the bones were said to have 

 been found, may be due to this modification, or more likely, a 

 readvance of the ice built the major part of the drumlin above the 

 deposit in which the bones had already become embedded. In other 

 words the remains of the peccaries may be interglacial. The bones 

 were buried to a depth of at least 10 feet and near the level of the 

 plain. One letter received states that the " bones were found at a 

 depth of perhaps 30 feet below the surface." 



The peccaries are indigenous to America and have as relatives 

 several living species which range from Texas through Mexico to 

 Central and South America. 



Odocoileus sp. Deer 



Remains of deer have been recovered from peat bogs, muck and 

 marl deposits in many parts of the State, and while in some in- 

 stances the situations have been such as to preclude the possibility 

 of recent origin, in many cases the material has had every indication 

 of being newly buried. The finds here recorded are regarded as 

 being of true fossil character. 



