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drawn up and stretched widely apart, In another they were Hexed and turned to 

 the side. 



No crania were saved. 



Five tibiae, all believed to be original, gave an average index of 63. 



Of 9 humeri, 6 showed perforation, or 66'6 per cent. 



IMPLEMENTS, ETC. 



With the skeleton of a woman 5'5 feet below the surface were fragments of 

 bones of edible animals, one flint flake and a number of shell beads near the 

 cranium. 



Unassociated at a depth of 6 - 5 feet was a rude three-sided lance or arrow point 

 of chert, 3 inches in length. 



Four feet below the surface, far removed from the other human remains, was 

 the lower third of a human humerus, much charred by fire. During the entire 

 investigation, no pottery, fragmentary or otherwise, was met with. We consider 

 the excavation at this place insufficient to allow any conclusion. 



Fifty yards north of the large burial mound is a smaller one 8 feet 10 inches 

 in height, with a circumference of 295 feet. The mound is composed of brown 

 sand with a sprinkling of shell, and like its neighbor is built upon a shell deposit. 



We hope to give full details of these mounds in the second part of this report. 



Cook's Ferry (King Philip's Town), Orange County. 



Cook's Ferry is on the west, or left bank of the river going down, about five 

 hundred yards north of Lake Harney. A large shell heap rises from the water's 

 edge, and in the neighboring orange grove is a mound of sand in shape the usual 

 truncated cone. The height of the mound is 11 feet 8 inches measured from all 

 sides save the S. E., where ground of a higher level reduces the height to 10 feet. 

 The trench at its base, described by Dr. Brinton 1 , is no longer apparent. The 

 present circumference of the mound is 245 1'eet. This mound has been superficially 

 dug into in many places, and its surface until recently offered an abundant harvest 

 of beads of glass. One of a number of beads from this place was covered with 

 pure gold leaf; some others resembled those from Santa Barbara, California, pre- 

 sumably derived from the early Spaniards-. From the owner of the mound 

 we obtained a number of beads superficially found there, with an ornament of sil- 

 ver (Fig. 104), and a disc of metal centrally perforated and encircled near the 

 margin by a line of indentations. Quite unexpectedly, an application 

 of nitric acid proved the disc to be of gold (fig. 105). These orna- 

 ments of precious metal were probably contemporary with the beads, 

 and derived from Spanish sources. 



From the southern portion of the mound sand has been hauled 

 Fig. 104. Orna- ... r . 



ment of silver for fertilizing purposes, leaving bare a portion of the base extending 

 (full size). inward 10 feet from the margin. At this point a trench 31 feet 



1 "The Floridian Peninsula," page 171. 

 '■'Professor Putnam in letter. 



