INDIAN HISTORY. mi 
country. Soon after the settlement of the Township of Manvers, 
one was discovered on Lot No. 3, 11th Con., situated on a pro 
montory of high table-land, which projected out in the form of a 
pear, elevated about forty feet above the flat swamp, by which it 
was partly surrounded. On the top of this place was a depression 
of about six feet, in which the Indian remains were found buried, 
from five to six feet below the surface. This was the condition 
in which it was found in 1839, by Mr. Jas. P. Lovekin, Mr. John 
Wilmot, and others, at which time there were two trees growing 
in the soil that covered the bones, 
Among all classes of Indians, these places are held in great 
veneration, and by them are never disturbed. This, however, is 
not the case with the white men ; some of whom visit these places 
for the laudable purpose of gaining knowledge, that might tend to 
inform us of their curious habits, customs of life, and past history, 
while others go from mere idle and wanton motives, and desecrate 
them, by mutilating and carrying off large quantities of the re- 
mains, for no other purpose than, after satisfying their vulgar cu- 
riosity, to be thrown carelessly aside ; thus, they are either lost or 
destroyed. This has, undoubtedly, been the case with the one in 
Manvers, which, from its size and general character, would indi- 
cate that a large number had been buried there. It cannot now, 
without difficulty, be determined, whether this has been an ordi- 
nary place of burial, or whether they are the remains of those who 
have fallen in battle. In the former case, it is usual to find the 
bones laid in some usual form, while in the latter, they are found 
heaped and thrown together, promiscuously. As, in their primi- 
tive mode of, warfare, tomahawks and war-clubs were commonly 
used, a number of indentures and fractures may be traced upon 
the craniums, produced by scalp wounds received in their hand 
‘to hand conflicts. 
Another of these places of interment is found at Ball Point, 
Scugog (Indian, crooked devil) Lake. For a long time after its 
discovery, it bore the reputation of containing the remains of a 
gigantic race. The truth of this, however, is not borne out by 
subsequent investigations. All the bones that I have seen from 
that place, are of the ordinary size. Dr. Reid, a well-known phys- 
