344 I'he American Geologist. J^°'=' ^^^^ 
femur. Some fragments of the bone still attached to this 
matrix show conclusively that the femur when found was 
almost directly reversed in position, lying parallel with the 
trunk. The left femur had been removed from its socket, 
but fragments of it attached to the horizontal ramus of the 
pubis show that it must have been lying more or less 
obliquely as regards the pelvis. Further details regarding 
the skeleton I leave for the abler pen of Dr. Hrdlicka. Of 
immediate interest, however, is the fact that a single left 
maxilla, belonging to a second skeleton, was discovered by 
the young men ten and one-half feet distant from the other, 
lying almost upon the limestone floor of the tunnel at its 
extreme edge. This maxilla is that of a child, as is shown 
by its smaller size, the presence of two deciduous molars, 
and a non-erupted canine tooth. In former notices of the 
discovery by both Mr. Upham and myself this maxilla was 
confounded with a half of the mandible of the other skele- 
ton, owing to the imi:ierfect description of the bones by the 
young men. 
The bones, sixty-nine or seventy feet from the entrance 
of the tunnel, were at a depth of nineteen or twenty feet 
from the present surface. It is needless to say that the 
roof of the tunnel shows no evidence whatever of previous 
disturbance. The walls and gently arched roof of the tun- 
nel have no support other than that afiforded by the coher- 
ency of the material, ai]d any previous excavation would 
certainly have left conspicuous and ineffaceable evidences 
of disturbance. This I mention because various newspaper 
"writers, with more zeal than wisdom, have explained the 
occurrence of the bones as those of convicts from the state 
penitentiary^ buried at this place. All such stories are ab- 
surd in the extreme. 
The limestone floor of the tunnel is covered by from 
two to four feet of ancient debris of limestone fragments 
and shales, more or less rounded and of moderate size, 
which had evidently rolled or slid down from the adjacent 
hillside. Lying in the upper part, or more probably upon 
this debris, and enveloped in the silicious loess, was found 
the skeleton, perhaps two feet above the limestone floor. 
Neither among this coarse debris, nor elsewhere in the 
