into a natural bason about sixty feet distant, the 

 upper tdgG of which was about ten feet above 

 the level of the water. An ingenious mill- 

 wright constructed the machinery; and after a 

 week ofclose labour, completed a largescaffolding 

 and awheel twenty feet diameter, wideenouah 

 for tliree or four men to walk abreast in : a 

 rope round this turned a small spindle, which 

 worked a chain of buckets regulated by a float- 

 ing cylinder ; the water emptied into a trough 

 which conveyed it to the bason ; a ship's pump 

 assisted, and towards the latter part of the 

 operation, a pair of half barrels in removing the 

 mud. The second day the water was lowered 

 so that they began to dig, and in a few hours 

 were rewarded with several small bones. 



Every farmer with his wife and children, for 

 twenty miles round in every direction, with 

 waggons, carriages, and horses, flocked to see 

 the operation ; and a swamp alv/ays noted for 

 being the solitary and dismal abode of snakes 

 and frogs, became the active scene of curiosity 

 and bustle ; the greater part astonished at the 

 whim of an old man in travelling two hundred 

 miles from his home, to dig up as a treasure, 

 at incredible risk, labour, and expence, a pile 

 of bones, which, although all were astonjshei:} 



