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bones and birch bark, and a bone awl 8 inches long. These were 

 probably from intrusive burial. 



Another fiat stone was found 2 feet from the surface, with three 

 human skulls underneath, in a rude box of flat limestones. Many 

 of the remaining bones were found, and five well preserved 

 crania were secured. One skeleton at 6 was in a sitting position, 

 with a pile of articles by it. Among these was the upper part of a 

 bone comb, several teeth of the same, a unilateral bone harpoon, 

 and three long shell beads. These articles do not indicate a high 

 antiquity, and are much like those of New York. The burial was 

 clearly intrusive. 



A sketch of this interesting group has been given because it is 

 little known, and partly because, being not far distant and in a very 

 similar situation, it may have some relation to those of Perch lake. 

 The latter seem to have gradually increased in hight; according to 

 Mr Wallbridge the former would seem to have been of nearly the 

 same size from the beginning. This hardly seems probable, nor is 

 it likely no fire was used in them, judging from what is found else- 

 where. I saw no ashes in those of Perch lake, and in some cases 

 the coals were so blended with the soil as to be hardly distinguishable. 



In the spring of 1901 I visited Perch lake, where the old La Farge 

 mansion once stood, at a considerable distance north of a large 

 stream which enters the lake on the east side. Quite a point extends 

 into the lake near this, back of which is a rocky bank, and thence 

 the land rises eastward in low and broad terraces. On the green- 

 sward of one of these, not far from the bank, two of these mounds 

 are conspicuous, one being a little above the other, and the edges 

 meeting. At this spot they are the only ones in sight, and both 

 have the characteristic circular form and depressed center. A little 

 digging has been done in each, but this has affected the appearance 

 very little. Though a little shaded they are practically in open 

 ground. They are not of the largest size. The upper and eastern 

 one has an extreme breadth of 34 feet, and an inside diameter of 

 14 feet from the interior slope. This is about 2 feet deep, within 

 and without. The western one is of the same outside hight, and is 

 32 feet across the base. The inside width is 17 feet, and the depth 



