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four. These four were heaped together ; the skull of one was miss- 
ing, the arms of another gone, and the leg of a third absent. 
Four others had nothing whatever placed in their graves. Two 
of the remaining seven had broken pottery and a few arrow-heads 
with them. The others were buried nearly with their heads to the 
South. With the f^rst were 62 bone beads and from their curved 
position plainly showed they had originally been on a string. The 
second had a neat little urn with handles, and containing a carved 
mussel shell, placed by his head. This pot was seven inches high, 
four inches in diameter, and was decorated with spiral lines. The 
third personage had nearly 300 glass beads between the ulna and 
radius. A small iron tomahawk near his hand showed furthermore 
that he had known the " long-knives." 
The fourth Indian had a copper plate (Lake Superior copper) 
over his head, four and a half inches long, two inches wide ; per- 
forated near one end. Beneath his head were twenty-four broken 
quartz fragments about the size of an egg. 
The fifth individual has a small copper earring, a tip to an arrow 
made of copper, and three large glass beads. The skulls of three 
of these five were taken out nearly whole. The average depth 
of the interment of these bodies did not exceed two and a half feet. 
The owner of the land presented the writer with a copper plate 
and a stone tomahawk (greenstone) from the same spot. He claimed 
that after a heavy rain twelve circular spots about ten feet in diam- 
ather could be plainly seen in the field, that these spots had a red- 
dish color, and were arranged in two rows. He further said that he 
thought them burnt spots of ground where the wigwams stood. That 
the field had been cultivated only a few years which accounted for 
the spot being still discernable. The bodies found by myself were 
all under these spots. iVi? j/^^/^/<3/« were exhumed in ground «i?/ /«- 
eluded in these reddish circular places. 
After the work here was completed, a mound on one of the high 
hills overlooking the valley was examined. Its dimensions were 35 
X45 feet diameter and six feet high. It was one mile north of 
Romney. The material was half stone, half earth. Seven men 
were all day in digging it through ; the whole structure was removed. 
Nothing was found save one decayed skeleton. This skeleton had 
live large mica plates placed where his breast had once been, a 
( opper bead has served as an earring, a slate ornament as a breast- 
plate, and live black serrated arrow-heads as weapons. The mica 
was 7x10 inches in size. The ornament 5x2, with two perforations. 
