60 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
gravels of the Somme, and the epoch of the caves, both of which 
are post-glacial or post-pliocene, or quaternary, in other words, 
posterior to the great submergence and refrigeration of Northern 
Kurope, through which many of the Pliocene mammalia were 
destroyed.—W. Boyo Dawxrs, in Nature. 
Mounps near Princeton, Intros. — In J anuary, 1870, through 
the kindness of P. D. Winship, Esq., I visited a place about three 
and a half miles south-east of Princeton, Illinois, where there are 
several small mounds, one or two of which Mr. Winship and oth- 
ers had previously opened. These mounds are very low, and are 
situated along an old terrace, which is perhaps sixty or seventy 
feet above the bed of a small stream. In one of these mounds 
human skeletons were found in a sitting posture, but the bones so 
readily crumbled that only portions could be preserved. They 
Fig. 21. Fig. 22. 
Indian pottery, outside, Indian pottery, inside. 
showed, however, that in this mound there were buried at least 
one man and one woman. Two small stone implements, some- 
ape, were found with the skeletons. 
ear to be greenstone, and are similar 
ndian burial places, 
from the low mound from which the 
ments were taken, a slight excavation 
EO made, fror Wi M Winship and those with him took the 
piece of pottery figured in the accompanying wood-cut (Figs. 21, 
