620 The American Naturalist. [July, 
being in a far worse condition than those of the skeleton at 
length. 
To return to the main excavation. Below the layer of 
white sand were two feet of brown sand and shell intermingled, 
and beneath this was a stratum 2 feet 9 inches in depth com- 
posed of crushed shells with a very slight admixture of sand. 
At a depth of 8 feet were more human bones disarranged by 
the digging. Ata depth of 81 feet a cranium was found, with 
bones of the face missing, except a half of the lower jaw. In 
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association were bones of the lower animals. At the same 
level as the skull, and where they might be looked for, in ana- 
tomical order were pelvis, femur, tibia, fibula and foot bones 
complete. A femur lay somewhat apart. It is possible that 
this femur, not in association with the pelvis or with the tibia 
which was found lying across the first tibia in anatomical 
| order, may have been separated from the skeleton by the 
‘shifting of sand caused by trampling in earlier stages of the 
