OG; Mevsh-—- Discos of an Ancient Sepulchral J be 
the first five feet, which was a slow and very 1aboriene under- 
taking, nothing worthy of notice was observed except e 
traces of ashes, and pieces of charcoal and nhs. scattered about 
at various depths. At five and a half feet below the surface, 
where the earth became ee difficult to remove, a broken stone 
pipe was found, which had evidently been long i in use. 
made of a very soft limestone containing fragments of small 
fossil shells, apparently Cretaceous species. No rock of precisely : 
this kind is known to exist in Ohio. Pieces of a tube of the ~ 
same material, and about an inch in diameter, were found near 
the pipe. The cavity was about two-thirds of an inch in diam- 
eter, and had been bored out with great regularity. Similar 
tubes have occasionally been found in mounds, but their use is 
not oC known. 
ut seven feet from the top of the mound a thin white 
siya was observed, which extended over a horizontal surface 
of several square yards, Near the center of this — = 
directly under the apex of the mound, a string of mo 
one hundred beads of native copper was fou and with it 
a few small bones of a child, about three years of age. 
beads were strung ona twisted cord of coarse vege re, 
apparently the inner bark of a tree, and this had been pre- 
served by salts of the copper, the antiseptic properties of which 
re well known. The position of the beads showed clear] 
that they had been wound two or three times arouw e neck 
of the bees and the bones sheen ei Se: neural arches 
of the vertebra, a clavicle, and a first rib), ' 
cisely those which the beads would es come in contact 
ith, w ecom position of t e ains 
of the earth. The beads were pit one-fourth of an inl 
jong, and one-third in diameter, and no little skill had been 
displayed in their construction. They were evidently made, 
without the aid of fire, by hammering the metal in its original 
Bake; but the joints were so neatly fitted that in most cases it 
‘was very difficult to detect them. On the same cord, and 
apparently been well polished, and the necklace, when, arene, 
must have formed a tasteful and striking ornament. 
* Native copper seems to have been the favorite material for ornaments among _ 
the scared. builders. The metal was, without doubt, d nig originally fon oe 
Lake Superior deposits, although it may have been found in the drift. 
more probably taken directly from the deposits themselves, a hey 0 pe 
ant evidence of ancient — operations, which no one familiar with 2 
would attribute to the more Indians, 
