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  Forty-seventh 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  State 
  Museum, 
  

  

  ful 
  search 
  did 
  not 
  reveal 
  the 
  slightest 
  trace 
  of 
  the 
  pelvic 
  and 
  leg 
  

   bones. 
  The 
  skull 
  was 
  badly 
  broken 
  in 
  being 
  unskilfully 
  

   removed, 
  but 
  was 
  partially 
  restored. 
  The 
  adjoining 
  skeleton 
  

   also 
  lacked 
  the 
  lower 
  extremities 
  and 
  the 
  head, 
  the 
  skull 
  

   harrowed 
  out 
  being 
  supposed 
  at 
  the 
  time 
  to 
  belong 
  to 
  it. 
  The 
  

   surrounding 
  clay 
  contained 
  fragments 
  of 
  charcoal 
  and 
  a 
  whitish 
  

   substance, 
  crumbling 
  in 
  the 
  fingers, 
  and 
  resembling 
  completely 
  

   calcined 
  bone. 
  This 
  material, 
  however, 
  rapidly 
  dissolves 
  in 
  cold, 
  

   dilute 
  hydrochloric 
  acid 
  and 
  consequently 
  is 
  adjudged 
  to 
  be 
  

   simple 
  calcium 
  carbonate. 
  Associated 
  with 
  these 
  remains 
  were 
  

   bones 
  of, 
  at 
  least, 
  two 
  ground 
  hogs 
  and 
  a 
  foot 
  bone 
  of 
  a 
  deer, 
  but 
  

   neither 
  implement 
  nor 
  ornament 
  could 
  be 
  found. 
  It 
  seems 
  more 
  

   probable 
  that 
  these 
  bodies 
  were 
  mutilated 
  before 
  burial, 
  rather 
  

   than 
  that 
  they 
  were 
  partially 
  consumed 
  by 
  fire. 
  

  

  Some 
  two 
  weeks 
  after 
  these 
  discoveries, 
  in 
  company 
  with 
  

   interested 
  members 
  of 
  the 
  Natural 
  Science 
  Camp, 
  I 
  visited 
  the 
  

   locality 
  and 
  enlarged 
  the 
  excavations. 
  A 
  massive 
  lower 
  jaw, 
  

   and 
  about 
  a 
  foot 
  from 
  it, 
  the 
  superior 
  maxillaries 
  were 
  soon 
  

   found, 
  both 
  perfectly 
  fitting 
  the 
  original 
  skull 
  harrowed 
  out 
  by 
  

   Mr. 
  Gage. 
  A 
  few 
  inches 
  further 
  away 
  the 
  neck 
  vertebrae 
  and 
  

   upper 
  extremities 
  appeared 
  and, 
  little 
  by 
  little, 
  the 
  entire 
  skeleton 
  

   was 
  brought 
  out 
  in 
  relief 
  from 
  the 
  clay 
  matrix. 
  Several 
  good 
  

   photographs 
  were 
  secured 
  before 
  the 
  bones 
  were 
  disturbed, 
  one 
  

   of 
  which 
  was 
  reproduced 
  in 
  the 
  Rochester 
  Union 
  and 
  Advertiser 
  

   for 
  July 
  29th, 
  1893. 
  The 
  body 
  lay 
  in 
  a 
  northwest 
  and 
  southeast 
  

   position, 
  the 
  head 
  toward 
  the 
  south, 
  at 
  right 
  angles 
  to 
  the 
  other 
  

   bodies, 
  some 
  five 
  or 
  six 
  feet 
  to 
  the 
  west 
  and 
  apparently 
  upon 
  

   the 
  same 
  level. 
  It 
  had 
  been 
  buried 
  upon 
  its 
  left 
  side, 
  the 
  hands 
  

   drawn 
  up 
  in 
  front 
  of 
  the 
  face 
  and 
  the 
  thighs 
  making 
  an 
  angle 
  of 
  

   about 
  135 
  degrees 
  with 
  the 
  trunk. 
  The 
  legs 
  were 
  bent 
  back- 
  

   ward 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  form 
  an 
  angle 
  of 
  45 
  degrees 
  with 
  the 
  thighs, 
  but 
  

   as 
  the 
  pelvic 
  bones 
  decayed 
  the 
  right 
  femur 
  had 
  dropped 
  down 
  

   and 
  backward 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  be 
  approximately 
  parallel 
  with 
  the 
  tibia. 
  

  

  An 
  excavation 
  had 
  been 
  made 
  to 
  a 
  depth 
  of 
  ten 
  to 
  twelve 
  

   inches 
  in 
  the 
  sand 
  aud 
  the 
  body 
  covered 
  with 
  clay, 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  case 
  

   of 
  the 
  other 
  two. 
  How 
  far 
  it 
  lay 
  from 
  the 
  original 
  surface 
  can 
  

   only 
  be 
  surmised, 
  since 
  the 
  amount 
  removed 
  from 
  the 
  knoll 
  by 
  cul- 
  

   tivation 
  and 
  rain 
  erosion 
  can 
  not 
  be 
  determined. 
  Overlying 
  the 
  

   skeleton 
  was 
  a 
  stratum 
  of 
  clay, 
  four 
  to 
  five 
  inches 
  in 
  thickness, 
  

  

  