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they had been attached are still partially preserved and remain 
in the apertures of the copper beads. I suppose that the teeth 
alternated with the copper beads and the stained bones. One 
copper bead, which adheres by its oxidation to the perforated 
part of a tooth, sustains this conclusion. rude stone axe, 
partially polished, lay beside these remains. All indicated that 
the dead had been peculiarly honored in his burial, and that he 
had been, perhaps, a noted personage. 
Immediately to the northward of this body another was taken 
out, skull No. 4, with the remaining bones. ese were under 
the edge of the oak stump, and, as well as the remains No. 8, 
were surrounded with masses of roots. Both bodies lay nearly 
side by side, and at the same vertical plane, five feet below the 
surface. As in the other cases, the bones of birds and fishes 
were found with the remains, but in small quantity. 
The excavation was next carried southward, through the . 
center of the mound, for a short distance; but no relics being 
met with other than a few fragments of broken hammers and 
flint chips, it was next opened in the opposite direction, north- 
ward, thus giving it the form of an irregular Latin cross. 
When a few feet to the northward of the remains last taken 
appear to have been used for some special purpose, perhaps as 
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previously referred to in a marked degree. A large : 
bones lay in front of this body, which, like the previous 
remains (skull No. 5, ete.), was buried psi on its right side 
with the head toward the east, and the limbs drawn up closely 
to the chest. It is possible that they may have been buried in 
a sitting or crouched position, and have afterward fallen over; 
but I think they were buried as first mentioned. The absence 
of pottery with the interments in this mound is worthy of note, 
only two fragments being found in any part of the mound, and 
these apparently accidentally drop ee 
Isolated excavations in different places throughout the ex- 
