1022 Lhe Peabody Museum's Explorations in Ohio. [December, 
idea of the customs and works of the people who made the great 
earthworks in Ohio than it has been possible heretofore to obtain. 
All other explorations in the State have been fragmentary. No 
other systematic work has been attempted, and hence we have 
had plenty of theories built upon partial facts. We have much 
to do before the exploration is completed even of this single 
group. 
To give a detailed account of all we have found during 
these two weeks would, I fear, draw too much on the patience, 
and I shall only cali attention now to a few of the more in- 
teresting points. Individuality had its exemplification in this old 
cemetery, the same as it has in our modern ones, and the modifi- 
cations are so great that no two of the graves thus far discovered 
are alike. In one instance there were no stones about the skele- 
ton; in another a carefully built wall had been made of long, 
narrow, flat stones, and a regular wall, four layers high, had been 
made in the same way that a mason lays bricks, but without 
mortar. In some graves flat stones were placed at the bottom; 
in others the skeleton was firmly imbedded in the gravel, while 
in one the body had been placed on a thin layer of clay placed 
over the gravel. In one grave there were two skeletons, one ex- 
tended at full length on its back and the other crowded into the 
grave by the side of the right leg of the first. A child was 
placed ina small circular grave, the body having been so arranged 
that the head and the feet were not far apart. Most of the graves 
were comparatively shallow, extending from six inches to a foot 
into the layer of gravel. The deeper the grave the better the con- 
dition of the skeleton. One grave was dug to the depth of nearly 
four feet in the gravel, and was seven feet long by four in width. 
- At the bottom was a pavement of flat stones, fourty-nine in num- 
ber. On these stones the body had been extended, and the grave 
had been filled up with over three hundred stones, all of which 
had been brought from the river bed, nearly a quarter of a mile 
_ distant. Over these stones six inches of gravel had been placed, 
es _around and over which other stones had been regularly arranged. 
: grave and caused the skeleton to decay, only a few fragments be 
ing left. The graves were not covered with large stones, a 
the case with the stone graves of Tennessee, and there is but! 
The free percolation of water through the stones had filled up the _ 
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common between the two. Another class of graves "o 
