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points in the cemetery. No other bones were found with it. 
There were a few black lines near the skull; they may have 
been caused by the decayed roots of trees, or bones. No trace 
of black soil was noticed with the sand. Numerous Indian 
relics were noticed in the top soil.” 1 
Three fragments have been found by Dr. Abbott himself, 
in the cuts made by the railway in the stratified gravels at 
Trenton. One of these is a left temporal bone (Fig. 4), the 
petrous portion of which is broken; and its whole appearance 
Fic: 2. 
strongly corroborates the statement of the finder, that it was 
taken from the undisturbed glacial gravels at a depth of 
thirteen feet. 
A portion of the left ramus of a human jaw (Fig. 5) was 
found by Dr. Abbott at the same locality in 1884. It was 
lying at a depth of sixteen feet from the surface and appears to 
have been subjected to rough usage by the gravels. The jaw 
is that of an individual, having a prominent chin, and exhibits 
neither primitive nor simian characters. 
1 Statement made recently to Mr. Volk and communicated in a letter dated 
Dec. 7, 1898. 
