HUMAN REMAINS IN THE DRIFT. 



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Plan of the district at Muskhain, near Newark. 



River. River. 



Section across the locality where the bones and human skull were found. 

 a, loam ; b, clay ; c, pulpy silt 3 very soft, and gravels. 



The pit sunk was about fifteen feet square, and at the bottom a 

 ten feet rod could be driven in with the hand alone, so soft was the 

 material. The divisions between the loam, clay, and silt had never 

 been disturbed from its first deposition. This was particularly noted. 

 Within a few yards of the spot this soft stuff gave place to fine 

 gravel and sand, the clay and loam continuous as before. In some 

 portions of this valley the gravel and sand comes up to within a few 

 inches of the surface, and the clay is wanting ; but this is not the 

 case in this immediate locality. This soft, pulpy matter indicates a 

 percolating connection between the " reaches" and the river. Suffice 

 it then to say that at this depth of twenty-five feet, the antlers of 

 a reindeer were found four feet long, sundry other large bones, sup- 

 posed to be those of Bos El&phas, Equus, &c, and numerous copro- 



