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spreading roots of tall trees, theluxuriant growth 

 of a few years, half of which were tottering over 

 our heads. It was almost a dead level, and the 

 holes dug for the purpofe of manure, out of 

 which a few bones had been taken six or seven 

 years before, were full of water, and connected 

 with others containing a vast quantity ; so that 

 to empty one was to empty them all. Ma- 

 chinery was erected, pumps and buckets were 

 employed, and a long course of troughs con- 

 ducted the water, among the distant roots, to a 

 fall of a few inches. 



Here alternate success and disappointment 

 amused and fatigued us for a long while ; until 

 our pockets emptied, our spirits low, our work- 

 men languid, we were about to quit the morass 

 with but a small collection, though in good pre* 

 servation, of ribs, toe and leg bones, &c. In 

 the meanwhile the ground was searched in va- 

 rious directions with long-pointed rods and cross 

 handles : after some practice we were able to 

 distinguish by the feel whatever substances we 

 touched harder than the soil; and by this means, 

 in a very unexpected direction, struck upon a 

 large collection of bones, which were dug to and 

 taken up with every possible care. They proved 

 to be a humerus, or large bone of the right leg, 



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