106 General Notes. [Januar 
ance in the yard, hops to a saucer, climbs in, and rolls over and € 
over until he is covered with meal, having done which, he awaits _ 
developments. The flies enticed by the smell, soon swarm around 
the scheming batrachian, and whenever one passes within two | 
inches or so of his nose, his tongue darts out and the fly disap t 
pears ; and this plan works so well that the toad has taken it up € 
as a regular business. The chickens do not manifest the least ~ 
alarm at their clumsy and big-mouthed playmate, but seem to i 
consider it quite a lark to gather around him and peck off his E 
stolen meal, even when they have plenty more of the same sort in 
the saucers— New Hampshire Gazette. 4 
ANTHROPOLOGY.’ T 
Discovery oF Mounp Retics AT DEVIL RIVER, LAKE HURON | 
—Excavations made by me, last summer, in mounds at Devita 
(chiefly developed at the popliteal space), such as have been i 
ready described as found by me in the mounds of the Detr 
river. Associated with these were humeri in which the lamina 
from the mounds near Detroit. In all of them the occipital 
men is situated decidedly backwards. Most of the bones we 
the more advanced stages of decay, and generally crumbled 
pieces in the effort to secure them. But few stone implem' 
were exhumed, and those were mostly of flint. Pottery was 
large quantities, and though in fragments, evidently pres 
a great variety of shapes, being ornamented with indented ¢ 
signs, among which the cord pattern, as usual, predominated. 
part.of the perforated stem of a pipe, formed of clay, was ame 
the relics. On the mounds originally stood pine trees (Pinus 
bus L.), which must have been at least two hundred years © 
The stumps of these, in numerous instances, remained, the 
growth long subsequently to the burials. 
_ On the low ground, toward the mouth of the river, is @ 
cient Manitou rock. It isa granite boulder and is deeply 
in the earth; the part protruding being an angle rising 
bee tribe) came annually in the autumn, in considerable num™ 
to offer their votive gifts, which were deposited upon the f 
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