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panying articles. Graves Nos. 11 and 14 con- 
tained each two bodies extended horizontally ,— 
the lower ones, which were of smaller stature 
than the upper ones, face up, and with heavy 
flat stones on the extended arms and legs; the 
upper ones with the face down; no implements 
or ornaments with them. 
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inscribed shells were found. Scattered over 
and among these ten or more skeletons were 
found hatchets (polished axes and celts), rub- 
bing and discoidal stones, copper arrow-points, 
mica, paint, black lead, etc.’’ 
This is sufficient to indicate the conditions 
under which the iron specimens were found. 
‘*On the north-west side of the triangle, at 
A, fig. 1, ten or more bodies were found which 
appeared to have been buried at one time; 
the old chief (?) with his head north-east, 
face down. Under his head was the larger sea- 
shell with hieroglyphics. Around his neck 
were the largest-sized beads. At or near each 
ear were the larger pieces of copper: there was 
also a piece of copper under his breast. His 
arms were extended, and his hands rested 
about one foot from each side of his head. 
Around each wrist was a bracelet composed of 
long, cylindrical, copper beads and shell beads 
alternated. At his right hand were found the 
implements of iron. Under his left hand was 
a sea-shell with hieroglyphics inscribed on the 
concave surface, and filled with beads of all 
sizes. 
** Around and over him, with their heads rest- 
ing near his, were placed nine or more bodies. 
Under the heads of two of these skeletons, 
resting within a foot of the chief’s ( ?), similarly 
It is proper to state that every article named 
was immediately forwarded to the bureau, and 
is now in the National museum. The celts and 
axes, which are chiefly of greenish sienite, are 
highly polished, and equal in finish to the finest 
hitherto discovered in this country. The pipes 
are well made, and mostly well polished. The 
engraved shells are fine, large specimens, the 
engraved design on each being of the same 
type as that shown in fig. 3, plate xxx., of 
Jones’s Antiquities of the southern Indians. 
The iron specimens alluded to are now before 
me, and are four in number, much corroded, 
but still showing the form. Two of them are 
flat pieces, of uniform thickness, not sharpened 
at the ends or edges, three to three and a half 
inches long, one to one and a half inches broad, 
and about a quarter of an inch thick. Another 
is five inches long, slightly tapering in width 
from one and an eighth to seven-eighths of an 
inch, both edges sharp, and is, without doubt, 
part of the blade of a long, slender, cutting or 
