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bones in place, but he saw them after they were brought down from 
the tunnel to a neighboring cabin. All the bones of the skeleton 
apparently were brought down in the arms of the miners and placed 
in a box, and it was the opinion of those present who examined 
them that the skeleton must have been perfect as it laid in the drift. 
He does not know what became of the bones, but can affirm to the 
truth of this discovery, and that the bones were those of a human 
skeleton, in an excellent state of preservation. The skull was 
broken in on the right temple, where there was a small hole, as if a 
part of the skull was gone, but he cannot tell whether this fracture 
occurred before the excavation or was made by the miners. He 
thinks the other bones were perfect. He thinks that the depth from 
the surface at which this skeleton was found was two hundred feet, 
and from one hundred and eighty to two hundred feet from the open- 
ing cut or face of the tunnel. The bones were in a moist condition, 
found among the gravel and very near the bed rock, and water was 
running out of the tunnel. There was a petrified pine tree, from 
sixty to eighty feet in lenoth and between two and three feet in di- 
ameter at the butt, lying near this skeleton. Mr. Akey went into the 
tunnel with the miners, and they pointed out to him the place where 
the skeleton was found. He saw the tree in place and broke speci- 
mens from it. He cannot remember the name of this tunnel, but it 
was about quarter of a mile east of the Rough and Ready tunnel 
and opposite Turner’s Flat, another well known point. He cannot 
‘tell the sex of the skeleton, but it was of medium size. The bones 
were altogether, and not separated, when found. 
On the same level at which this skeleton was found, but from other 
tunnels, Mr. Akey saw many bones of animals taken, but no other 
human remains. Among these remains were mastodons’ teeth 
and bones of smaller animals than mastodons, the names of which 
he does not know. Petrified wood was very common, and pine 
cones, and pitch, and bark were found at these levels and among the 
gravel. 
Overlying these placer deposits and organic remains was volcanic 
matter consisting of lava or of “ honey-combed ” material. 
Many other details in connection with the above Mr. Akey has 
communicated to me; but the main point, the discovery and identifica- 
tion of a complete human skeleton in placer at two hundred feet below 
the surface of Table Mountain and overlaid with volcanic matter is 
that alone which I wish to communicate in confirmation of the pre- 
ceding discovery of similar organic remains, first made known to the 
