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found; and if they were ever thade by the whites and furnished 
to the Indians, I have never happened to find any that showed 
evidence of the fact. We have certainly found them under such 
conditions in Ohio that they must have been buried with their 
owners long before the discovery of America. Then again, all 
we have found have been made by hammering pieces of native 
copper, and not by casting the metal. 
By the side of the right tibia of the skeleton in the grave wasa 
Copper pin, a wooden bead covered with thin copper, a few long, 
slender flakes of flint, and a fragment of some kind of an orna- 
ment made of shell. These long flint knives are of the same 
shape and character as the well known obsidian flakes from Mex- 
ico, and we have found them, as a rule, associated with copper 
far ornaments like those in this grave. They are sharp edged, 
and are as good knives as the Mexican flakes. While speaking 
of them in general terms as flint, they are in reality flakes struck 
from several varieties of stones, many of them being of a bright 
red jasper and others of chalcedony. The wooden bead covered 
with copper is of the same character as others we have taken from 
the burial mounds in which we have found the copper ear orna- 
: Ments. Close to the right hand and hip, but two inches above 
them, and covering a space a foot in diameter, were a mass of 
fragments of burnt human bones, with bits of charcoal mixed 
with ashes. These remains of a cremated body had been gathered 
from the place where it had been burnt, brought to this grave and 
Placed by the side of the body at the time it was laid in the grave. 
The close contact of the remains to the finger bones of the skele- 
ton, which were not disturbed, was sufficient evidence of this. 
Here, then, in one grave, we had found the evidence associating 
~ it with the altar mounds and the rest of the earthworks about, in- 
ce dependently of the fact that the grave itself was within the earth 
wall Surrounding all the other works. We had found evidentiy 
the burial place of the people, and this was abundantly confirmed 
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as our work progressed. 
We have now for two weeks been engaged in exploring this 
_ burial place, and during this time we have discovered eighteen 
graves, four large deep pits, and several holes dug in the gravel, 
as well as places where there had been fires, and numerous other 
interesting facts, many of which by themselves would be trivial, 
but which, when they are all put together, will give a far better 
