132 Indian Stone Graves. [Feb 
lian origin. The mound-builders’ skulls which he had oc 
to examine are referred by him to the Toltecan family. 
Following this classification, Dr. Wislizenus discovered in 
of the skulls exhumed by him the characteristics which 
Morton attributes to the American family, while the others 
hibit what he regards as the Toltecan conformation.’ These! 
skulls were found in graves of the same construction, and h 
Dr. Wislizenus infers “that persons of both families of 
American race have lived, and were buried here. together.” 
then expresses his belief in the former occupancy of Florid 
disappeared before the intrusion of the white man.” 
It is quite natural that Dr. Wislizenus should have arti 
such a conclusion, no recent case of a stone-grave burial 
known to him; and the circumstance that he had discovet 
objects ef the white man’s handicraft in the graves examin 
him, went far to strengthen him in his convictions. Yet he 
at the beginning of his article, that many of the graven 
already, out of. mere curiosity, been opened, and their va 
contents been carried off or destroyed, without throwing 
light upon their mysterious origin.” This fully agrees with 
own experience. I have seen quite a number of stone 8% 
but the majority of them, if I remember correctly, had 
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