HI. Giillman—Indian Mounds in Michigan. 5 
counted for by their having been fractured in pounding the 
grains used as food, and in cracking the bones of animals for 
the extraction of the marrow, indications of which are not 
wanting. The pottery, found in both these mounds exhibits an 
unusual variety of patterns; though not a single utensil was 
taken out entire. 
From want of time the investigation of the northern part 
of the mound, which is elevated at its center from two to three 
mounds, 
All the northern portion of the mound and also the sides of 
the southern portion are covered with a large second growth of 
trees. These consist chiefly of White Pine (Pinus strobus L.), 
Scarlet Oak (Quercus cocemea Wang.), White Ouk (Q. alba 1.), 
and Basswood (Ziha Americana L.). The trunks of some of 
these trees have a diameter of from eighteen inches to two and 
one-half feet. A few decayed stumps of the original forest still 
remain. ‘These average four feet in diameter. 
Mound No. 8.—After the exploration of four other mounds, 
three lying northward, the fourth northwestward of Mound 
will be further alluded to), had grown over and around these 
nes. The excavation was deepened, widened and carried 
farther to the eastward, opening a trench to the mei tex of six 
feet, but only small fragments of human bones resulted. The 
trench was then opened to the westward, toward the stump of 
the oak. When at the depth of five feet we came to a sku 
