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and orientation is unknown. Edwin Mitchell stated that the 
skeletons were about 8 feet apart and were flexed on the 
side. The nearly-formed wisdom teeth of one were not erupted. 
Dr. Dewar, of Bright, secured a fagment of a skull and Mr. 
Mitchell some other bones. 
No. 3. On “Poverty Hill,” on the lower half of lot 2, con- 
cession V, about 105 feet north of the concession line, I 
found the parietal of a skull protruding from a little wind 
blown hollow in the sand. About 10 feet of sand has been 
blown from above the skeleton, but most of this may have 
drifted over the original burial and, after the surface was 
disturbed by cultivation, again been blown away. William 
Mann, who lives about a fourth of a mile west of “Poverty 
Hill,” says that when his father settled there he could not see 
the barn on Anthony Smith’s farm to the east of the hill, al- 
though it was as high, or higher, than Mr. Mann’s house : so the 
hill must have been at least 12 or more feet high in order to 
obscure the barn. The skeleton was found flexed and on its left 
side with head north and hands on the right cheek. Most of 
the ribs, some of the dorsal vertebrae, all the lumbar vertebrae, 
the pelvis, the upper ends of the femora, and the lower ends of 
the tibiae were, missing. The missing bones may have decayed, 
although the bones of the feet, which were on the same level, 
were intact. The tibise and the bones of the feet were only 
about 6 inches below the surface. Missing bones or other 
burials were not found although two of us dug here for several 
hours. 
No. 4. On the hills to the south of this, in the next concession, 
there are a number of hollows possibly indicating graves. This 
burial ground is said to extend on to the old Murray farm, 
lot 3, concession IV, and on the farm of William Smith just 
east of the Murray place, lot 2, concession IY, a skeleton was 
unearthed from near the surface about 1896. Mr. Smith’s em- 
ploye found it. Further data were unobtainable. 
No. 5. Several burials were found before 1876 on the old 
Hersee farm, lot 3, concession III, near the “Indian Spring.” 
