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alveoli had been absorbed. These facts indicate an individual 
which was, at the least, adult. Forty feet from the place where 
these bones were found, a large tree had been overturned, and 
among the shells carried up by the roots, was found a human 
ankle bone (an astragalus), but a careful search brought to light 
nothing else, in this direction, belonging to man. : 
6. A single fragment of a human upper jaw of the right side, 3 
was found in the large shell heap on the same island and near the 
river buried to the depth of six or seven feet, and could have been 
deposited there only at the time the mound was built. An upper 
arm bone, whole, parts of the lower jaw, and a few fragments of 
other bones, were discovered in the débris at the base of the same 
mound where it had been undermined, but the precise place from 
which they had fallen is uncertain. 
7. In the remnant of a mound, three-quarters of a mile below 
Hawkinsville and on the left bank, human bones were found, about | 
a foot deep, in a layer of shells not more than two feet thick. 
They appeared to be of the same age as the shells in which they ; 
were embedded, and were all broken, and much scattered, a proof | 
that they had not been buried. A second deposit was found . 
twenty-five feet from the preceding, the bones were somewhat in- 2 
crusted with lime, and were more decomposed. There were from 
the first locality seven fragments of cranium, two of the left | 
humerus, two of the left clavicle, one of the right ulna, one frag- . 
ment each of the right and left tibia and several small pieces of : 
other bones. The shore where both these sets were found had : 
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' been undermined and it is probable that many pieces had been 
washed away. 
8. Excavations made on the side of Bartram’s Mound near the 
river, and where it had been undermined, brought to light numer — 
ous pieces of human bones all belonging to one skeleton. There 
were eighteen fragments of cranium, the right half of the lower 
jaw, the teeth of which had nearly all been lost and their alveoli a 
absorbed, and thirty fragments of other bones including those of 
a femur, humerus, radius, tibia, fibula, and a patella. All of 
these appeared to have been covered for a long time, had losk 
nearly all their organic matter and were incrusted with a thin 
layer of calcareous deposit. It is quite likely that here too some 
of the bones originally deposited had been washed away by the 
river, as the mound at this point had been largely destroy ed. 1 
