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greenstone. We continued down nearly ten feet further and were 
then at the centre of the mound. We found no more large deposits 
of objects. On the east side we found, on the base line, the skeleton 
of a child with three shell beads and two copper rings on the left hand. 
On the north side of the mound was found a layer of fine white ashes 
under the charcoal, then a small patch of burnt clay, but it was not 
regular enough to be called an altar. The wood of this charcoal was 
sufficiently well preserved to be recognized as white oak, hickory, 
poplar and chestnut. 
There were no distinct layers in this mound, and no evidence of 
cremation. The charcoal had been placed there in a cold state, as the 
earth around it was not burned. Five men were employed two days 
in opening this mound. 
Mound No. 37.— This mound is on the farm of Jesse James, three 
miles east of Chillicothe, Ohio, and situated on the third river terrace. 
Its dimensions are 50 x 76 x 13 feet. We began operations by starting 
a 22-feet trench on the east side, following the longest diameter of the 
mound. This was continued for fifty-nine feet, or until we were ten 
feet beyond the centre. Finding nothing of importance we stopped 
work. After we worked about twenty feet from the outer edge we 
came upon a bed of burnt bones and ashes three inches thick and ex- 
tending eighteen feet toward the centre of the mound. We found by 
digging under the walls, on each side of our trench, that this layer 
ran further than the width of our trench. At about fifteen feet from 
the centre and on the base line of the mound was a skeleton, and 159 
shell beads made from ocean shells. One hundred and two of these 
beads lay near the head, the rest near the lumbar vertebrae. The bones 
were too fragile to be preserved. Six feet from the base line and seven 
and a half feet from the summit, was a second skeleton in a better 
state of preservation. It lay above and to the west of the other 
skeleton. 
The right femur lay with the lower articulate end far to the left. 
The tibia of the right leg lay in natural position, but the fibula lay far 
over to the left. The fibula of the left leg lay under the tibia of the 
left leg in an unnatural position, and both too much to the left. 
PECULIARIT 
1. Shoulder to shoulder measurement, 19 ii 
2. Head slightly crushed. 
3- Lumbar vertebrae gone (in part). 
4- Pelvis overlaps the hands. 
