eras 
Mar Sea Saetion of an Ancient Sepulelra Mound. 7 
was about five inches in its greatest diameter, six in height, and 
one-third of an inch in thickness. It was without ornament 
and age made of clay containing some s he and powdered 
ns, 
Bee the bottom of the mound, ¥ — in the cue 
were various animal bones, most of them in an excellent state 
of preservation. Many of these al to the common nae ery 
and nearly all the hollow bones had been skillfully split open 
lengthwise,—probably for the purpose of extracting the mar- 
row,—a common custom among rude nations. Some of shoas 
remains of the deer indicated individuals of a size seldom at- 
tained by the species at the present time. Beside one of the 
several bones of the gray rabbit. This renders it not unlikely 
that the mound-builders used this animal for food,—a point of 
some interest, as the inhabitants of Europe in the stone age are 
supposed to have been prevented from eating the hare, by the 
same superstition that prevailed among the ancient Britons, and 
is still yee among the Laplanders. 
the animal remains in the mound, although well 
preserved, were in too small fragments to admit of accurate 
termination. Characteristic Epona however, were obtained 
of those in the following list 
Cervus Canadensis, Erxl., (elk). 
Cervus Virginianus Bodd. .» (common deer). 
Arctomys monaz, Gin., (seater 
pee on the chase for subsistence. If, however, they were a 
ee and agricultural people, as is "generally supposed, we 
should expect to find in the mounds, the remains of domestic, 
rather than, of wild, animals, but none of these have yet been 
discov This may be owing to the fact that comparativel} 
