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been excavated in the soil before the mound itself was commenced. 

 In it were found parts of at least eight skeletons, belonging to indi- 

 viduals of different ages ; they had evidently been thrown in care- 

 lessly, most of them soon after death, and thus presented a striking 

 contrast to the evidences of careful burial in the mound itself. 

 Eleven skeletons were discovered by Mr. Marsh in such a condition 

 as to prove that the individuals had been buried in a hurried and 

 careless manner, and he states that "nearly all of these remains 

 were those of women and children." 



"With the skeletons were found implements of flint and chert, 

 remains of various animals, all of which are still living, and most of 

 them still inhabiting Ohio. Two vessels of very coarse pottery 

 were discovered ; some haematite powder, which was probably used 

 as paint ; together with needles, spoons, a whistle, a spatula, and 

 other objects made of bone. The manner in which the teeth were 

 worn indicates, says Mr. Marsh, " that the mound-builders, like the 

 ancient Egyptians, and the Danes of the Stone age, did not, in 

 eating, use the incisive teeth for cutting, as modern nations do." 

 We must conclude our notice of this very interesting paper by 

 stating that the author infers the large proportion of small children 

 represented amongst the remains to indicate " for tins case a rate of 

 infant mortality (about thirty-three per cent.) which is much higher 

 than some have supposed ever existed among rude nations." 



The ' Anthropological Eeview ' for January contains, amongst 

 other articles of interest, what we believe to be the most tangible 

 account yet published of the characters and the age of the human 

 jaw found in the Trou de la Naulette, in the Valley of the Lesse. 

 It is contained in a summary of a paper read before the Anthropo- 

 logical Society of London by Mr. C. Carter Blake, who had been 

 sent by that Society to report on the recent explorations of the 

 Bone-caves of the Valley of the Lesse conducted by Dr. Dupont, 

 under the auspices of the Belgian Government. As Mr. Blake's 

 conclusions are given categorically in a very brief form, we cannot 

 do better than record them verbatim, as follows : — " (1) That the 

 deposit of stratified ' lehm ' under stalagmite in the Trou de la 

 Naulette was due to the action of slowly operating causes. (2) That 

 the individual whose jaw was found therein was contemporary with 

 the elephant and rhinoceros, whose remains are embedded under 

 like conditions. (3) That some of the characters afforded by the 

 jaw indicate a resemblance to the jaws of the Slavonic peoples of 

 Eastern Europe, as especially exemplified in the Masures and 

 Wends. (4) That some of the characters of the jaw from the 

 Trou de la Naulette indicate a strong resemblance to, and exaggera- 

 tion of, the characters afforded by the melanous races of men, and 

 especially the Australian. (5) That the above characters afford a 

 distinction between the remains found in the Trou de la Naulette 



