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« A second cave is situated near the mouth of the Big Pidgeon 
River, not far from Newport, in Cocke County. As described by 
Mr. Dunning, ‘it is about eighty feet above the water, and reached 
only by a steep rocky path called Devil’s Gap. The tomb was 
found about two feet below the floor of the cave, covered with an 
artificial layer of clay about six inches in thickness, by which the 
joinings of the stone were completely closed. It was five feet long, 
two high and three and a half broad, and built of unhewn stones, 
fragments of the outcropping limestone ridge near by. The body 
was placed in a crouching position. Char coal and ashes were p 
ent, indicating that fire had been kindled near the tomb. The only 
relics found buried with the skeleton were about five pounds of 
disks made from some large marine shell from an inch to an inch 
and a half in diameter, and perforated in the middle.’ The skeleton 
found in this stone tomb, as appears from the imperfect ossifica- 
tion of the bones, was that of an individual not quite adult, having. 
a height of nearly six feet, but with bones of rather slender make. 
e tibi are somewhat flattened, and the fore arms are much 
Pawened, in proportion to the upper arm, the radius being 0°81 
and the ulna 0°87 of the length of the humerus. The cranium was 
not quite perfect, but sufficiently so to determine its principal pro- 
portions. The most marked feature, and this is very striking, is 
the extreme artificial flattening of the occiput, and the consequent 
increase of the diameter of the head from side to side, so that the 
breadth somewhat exceeded the length, a degree of distortion not 
often met with even in the extreme cases among the Peruvians. 
In many of the North American Indian tribes a comparatively 
slight amount of distortion is often met with, but among a few 
it was carried to an extreme condition, as in the Natchez, as 
recorded by Adair and Bartram, and more recently by Morton ; 
among the Choctaws and Waxsaws, <n to Lawson, and 
among the Catawbas, according to Mor 
It is interesting to know that we have the flattened form of 
@ head i in the ancient race of Tennessee as well as the natural form, 
for in a skull which Dr. Jones obtained from East Tennessee, 
of which we have a photograph in the Academy collection, the 
high forehead is a marked feature, and it seems now to be a fact 
-~ beyond dispute that both forms of crania, as expressed by the 
~ terms of high and low foreheads, are common throughout the whole 
_ mound region of the United States, indicating a great similarity 
with the ancient races in Central and ES Tanerion; 
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ce Prof. Wy man’ s own explorations in Florida. ‘The care with which 
the p renewed his examination of the shéll heaps he had 
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