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and flint chips, which result from an Indian village once having 

 occupied this spot. There have been many skeletons found in 

 this cemetery by our party as well as by other explorers. The 

 skeletons found are enclosed in rude stone coffins of limestone, and 

 have usually nothing whatever placed with them. The bones are 

 in a very poor state of preservation, and very few of the skulls can 

 be taken out entire. One or two of the individuals found had 

 some yellow flint implements, pottery fragments and stone celts 

 buried with them. These are shown in photographs and drawings 

 made on the spot, and which will be used in a published account 

 of the work. The heads that were sufficiently entire to be pre- 

 served show a considerable facial angle, and from outward appear- 

 ances indicate a race of people of some intelligence. The length 

 of the bodies found is but little below the average man of to-day. 

 The skeletons under the stone heaps have evidently been placed 

 there in great haste, as there was no time to erect over them a large 

 mound, or bury them in deep graves, as were these others. We 

 find the bones of these latter individuals in fragments from four to 

 five inches in length, and in no case has the writer been able to 

 take out any bones save those of the hands and feet in an entire 

 condition. Small beads, arrow and spear heads are frequently 

 found in these stone heaps, as if the objects had been hastily thrown 

 in when the body was buried. 



A description of this renowned place would not be complete 

 without a brief mention of the parallel walls. These parallel walls* 

 when measured by Messrs. Squire and Davis in 1847, were nearly 

 obliterated. In 1809, when they were first noticed by that pioneer 

 of American archaeology, Caleb Atwater, they were very distinct, 

 and were described by Atwater as being three and one-half feet in 

 height, one hundred and thirty feet distant from each other, and 

 very symmetrical in their construction. They have been cultivated 

 over by the farmers who have occupied that region until a very 

 slight trace of them remains, and had not our survey been well 

 trained in tracing almost obliterated monuments, we would have 

 been unable to follow them to their termination. The two walls 

 start at two large mounds, just east of the fortification, and they 

 extend in' a northeasterly direction for two thousand seven hundred 

 and sixty feet, where they terminate by inclosing a small earthen 

 mound They have been in all previous reports except that of Mr. 

 Atwater given as being one thousand three hundred feet in length. 



