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In caved sand was a tubular copper bead with overlapping edge, 12 inches in 

 length. no o 



At the base of the eastern slope of the mound, at a point about four feet 

 from the surface, was a part of a lower jaw of an unidentified mammal, copper- 

 coated on one side, represented by the ramus and a portion of the body showing the 



Fig. 25. Copper disc, Tick Island. (Full size.) 



Fig. 26. Portion of jaw of mammal, copper- 

 coated side, Tick Island. (Full size.) 



Fig. 27. Portion of jaw of mammal, side 

 showing bone, Tick Island. (Full size.) 



sockets of two molars. The work was neatly done, and at one place showed 

 piecing on of extra copper where the original sheet had failed to afford sufficient 

 material. A part of the copper sheathing extending beyond the bone, indicated a 

 loss of the enclosed material through the ravages of decay. Figs. 26 and 27 show 



20 JOUEN. A. N. S. PHILA., VOL. X. 



