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different from any one I have seen. Also on this earth was 
ashes, nearly from six inches to one foot in depth, intermixed 
with burned wood and burned bones, broken spears, axes, knives, 
&c. The fire appeared to have been the largest on the head 
and neck of the animal, as the ashes and coals were much deeper 
here than on the rest of the body ; the skull was quite perfect, 
but so much burned that it crumbled to dust on the least 
touch ; two feet from this was found two teeth broken off from 
the jaw, but mashed entirely to pieces. By putting them to- 
gether they showed the animal to have been much larger than 
any heretofore discovered. 
It appeared by the situation of the skeleton that the animal 
had been sunk with its hind feet in the mud and water, and 
unable to extricate itself, had fallen on its right side, and in 
that situation was found and killed as above described; conse- 
quently the hind and fore foot on the right side was sunk deeper 
in the mud, and thereby saved from the effects of the fire ; 
therefore I was able to preserve the whole of the hind foot to 
the very last joint, and the fore foot all but some few small bones, 
that were too much decayed to be worth saving. Also between 
the rocks that had sunk through the ashes was found large 
pieces of skin, that appeared like fresh tanned sole- leather, 
strongly impregnated with the ley from the ashes, and a great 
many of the sinews and arteries were plain to be seen on the 
earth and rocks, but in such a state as not to be moved, except- 
ing in small pieces, the size of a hand, which are now preserved 
in spirits. 
66 Should any doubts arise in the mind of the reader, of the 
correctness of the above statement, he can be referred to more 
than twenty witnesses, who were present at the time of digging.” 
— SilL Amer. Journal , 1839, xxxvi. p. 198. 
The statements respecting this discovery in the pamphlet of 
1843 agree in the main with the above. There is the additional 
information that the excavation took place in October 1838, 
and that the locality was within 300 yards of the Burbois 
(rightly Bourbeuse) River ; but nothing is said of the “ large 
pieces of skin that appeared like fresh tanned sole-leather 
strongly impregnated with the ley from the ashes,” or of 66 the 
sinews and arteries ” that “ were plainly to be seen on the earth 
and rocks,” portions of 66 which are now preserved in spirits.” 
II. 66 The second trace of human existence with these animals 
I found during the excavation of the Missourium. There was 
embedded, immediately under the femur or hind leg bone of 
this animal, an arrow-head of rose-coloured flint, resembling 
those used by the American Indians, but of a larger size. This 
was the only arrow-head immediately with the skeleton : but in 
the same strata, at a distance of five or six feet, in a horizontal 
