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Fig. 1. Sketch map showing the locality at which human fossils were 

 found at Vero. Scale, 1 inch equals 300 feet. The location of the human 

 remains in the canal bank is indicated in the sketch by a cross. The 

 margins of the broad valley are indicated by the dotted lines, and the 

 swamp growth in the valley by the conventional character. The canal 

 follows the stream valley while passing under the Florida East Coast 

 Railroad and the public road. The modern stream in this valley followed 

 an ill-defined, anastomosing and frequently changing channel. 



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Fig. 2. Sketch showing the section of the canal banks from the Florida 

 East Coast Railroad bridge west to the entrance of the lateral streams. 

 Horizontal scale, one inch equals 125 feet; vertical scale, one inch equals 

 40 feet. The base line is drawn at water level in the canal which at 

 that time stood 18 feet below the top of the railroad track. The break 

 in the sketch indicates the entrance of the lateral canal from the south. 

 ( 1 ) Marine shell marl found generally throughout this part of the state 

 and cut into by the canal here as elsewhere. (2) River deposits consisting 

 near the base of cross bedded sands with inclusions at places of muck 

 and vegetable material ; at a higher level the sand is prevailingly of a 

 brown color, fairly well indurated, and contains many fresh-water shells; 

 at the top the sand at places grades into a fresh-water marl which reaches 

 a maximum thickness of two feet. Vertebrate fossils are found through- 

 out this deposit from the marl at the top to the muck inclusions at the 

 base. The first human bones obtained are from this bed, the location in 

 the canal bank being indicated in the sketch by a cross. (3) Alluvial 

 deposits having an average thickness of about two feet. The second human 

 skeleton was obtained from the base of this bed at a place where it 

 reaches a maximum thickness of about five feet. The location of human 

 bones in this bed is also indicated in the sketch. 



