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found forty-nine species, and from one in 1613, over Calabria, 

 sixty-four species of organisms. How many, if any, have 

 been found in California dust storms? 



NOTES ON EXCAVATIONS MADE IN INDIAN BURIAL 

 PLACES IN CARPINTERIA. 



BY H. C FORD. 



In Carpihteria, on the rancho of S. H. Olmstead, Esq., 

 twelve miles from the City of Santa Barbara, is, probably, the 

 site of one of the twenty-six villages enumerated by Cabrillo 

 upon his voyage of discovery and visit to this coast in 1542. 

 Evidences of a large population having existed from a remote 

 period, still remain in the immense deposit of shells, bones of 

 small quadrupeds, birds and fish, scattered over a wide area. 

 A hill rising perhaps one hundred feet above, and- distant 

 from the sea one fourth of a mile, is covered at its apex, and 

 extending down its slopes to the extent of thirty-five or forty 

 acres, with the bleached fragments of the Chione, a bivalve 

 that seems to have afforded the most abundant food of the 

 inhabitants, the deposit being several feet in thickness in 

 many places. This mollusk must have been much more 

 numerous at the period of the inhabitation of this rancheria 

 than at present, as but few specimens can be obtained of those 

 now living in the adjacent sea, and examples are rarely met 

 in the more recently occupied villages nearer the water. 

 Scattered along the bluff overlooking the ocean, between the 

 mouth of the Carpinteria creek and a slight ravine further 

 down the coast, are the "kitchen middings" of the later 

 inhabitants of this locality. Here we find, in mound-like 

 elevations, vast quantities of the shells of crustaceans similar 

 to those living in the sea to-day, mixed with large numbers of 

 oval pebbles of various sizes, known as boiling stones, many 

 of which still bear marks of the fire in which they were 

 heated. The broken valves of the Mytilus Californicus pre- 



