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skeletons, all showing distinctly the marks of fire. They were 
own together. without any regularity whatever. There were 
no ashes nor cinders in the mound, which led me to believe that 
the bodies had been burned near by and the charred remains 
thrown upon the tomb of the person whose remains were found 
below them. The bones of this single individual were found at 
the base of the mound. He (or rather she, for from the skull 
I judge that it was a female) was buried originally in a sitting 
Fig, 182, 
Tron Ore (natural size). Gray Crinoidal Limestone (nat. size). 
posture, but the weight of the superincumbent earth had forced 
or crowded the vertebra of the neck into the bifurcation of the 
lower jaw, and had twisted the head down to one side, so that 
When found the skull was resting on its side with the face to the 
east. A skull remarkably flattened by artificial means, or distorted, 
Was found, similar to that of the Peruvian Child, plate No. 
10, of Dr. Mortons “ Crania Americana.” We here see evi- 
dence of two practices, that of sacrificing the living upon the 
