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Fic. 3.—One-half natural size. 
This tube is four and a quarter inches long, the perforation has 
at one end a diameter of one-quarter of an inch, gradually 
enlarging until it reaches at the other end a diameter of three- 
quarters of an inch. 
Besides the tube, we found at this time a sea shell, somewhat 
modified for a drinking vessel, its longest diameter being four 
: inches, a beaver’s tooth, several 
bone awls, three arrowheads, a 
number of flint flakes, pieces of 
a tortoise shell, some fragments 
of deer horn implements, the 
bone gouge, Fig. 4, and a large 
wing bone of a bird. 
A few days after this I again 
visited the place with a couple 
of workmen, and prepared to 
give it a pretty thorough exam- 
ination. I commenced digging 
at the grave we had previously 
found, and cleared off a space sev- 
eral feet wide immediately below 
it, so as to be able to determine 
the manner of burial. I found 
that there had been two bodies 
buried in this grave, side by 
side, in a sitting posture, facing 
the east, a pit having been dug 
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with flat stones previously to 
the interment. This manner of 
lining the grave I have not 
Fic. 4.—Bone Gouge, full size. before seen, but all the graves 
~ examined were of this kind. Large boulders and angular pieces 
