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posed of a triple row of shell beads and the canine teeth of 
animals, such as those upon Tablets 8 to ii, Case B 34. 
In some of the *' sepulchral " mounds, as in this instance and 
in the mound c — e last-mentioned, the skeleton was enveloped 
in bark or matting. 
Upon Tablet 22 (S and D 734), Case C 38, is a portion of 
bark imbedded in clay, upon which the skeleton in this mound 
was found. 
Mound No. 3. Plate ii. ''Ancient Monuments of the 
Mississippi Valley." 
This mound is close to the city of Chillicothe. It is chiefly 
remarkable from the circumstance, that in it was found the 
only wedge-shaped (rubbed) stone hatchet obtained from any 
of the mounds opened by Squier and Davis. The mound is 
between twenty and twenty-five feet in height. Upon the 
original level of the ground there was a layer of charcoal and 
ashes, six or eight feet square, and from six inches to a foot 
in thickness. In this deposit- were fragments of human bones, 
the stone hatchet already mentioned, several thin pieces of 
copper which had been hammered, and some fragments of the 
harder and less common kinds of stone. The heat of the fire 
had been sufficiently intense to almost consume the skeleton ; 
earth had been heaped over the fire while it was still burning, 
for the charcoal was coarse and clear, and the earth was quite 
baked immediately above the deposit. 
The stone hatchet No. 6 (S and D 377), Case A 50, does not 
appear to have been exposed to the action of f^re. This cir- 
cumstance, coupled with the fact that it is the only example of 
the type which has been found in the mounds, suggests the 
idea that it formed no part of the original deposit, but was 
probably introduced at a later period, and may have been con- 
nected with a secondary interment. 
MATERIALS OF THE OHIO PIPES. 
The following notice of the materials used by the mound- 
builders for their "gorgets," smoking-pipes, &c., has been 
most kindly contributed by Professor Church, of the Royal 
Agricultural College, Cirencester, who not only carefully 
