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BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
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The exposure in the canal bank at the place where these bones were found 
is shown in the accompanying sketch and in the photographs. . . . The top 
surface of stratum No. 2 here, as elsewhere, is irregular, the irregularities being 
filled by the overlying deposits. At the spot where the human bones were 
found, owing to stream wash previous to the deposition of the overlying deposit, 
the fresh-water stratum. No. 2 of the section, is only 18 inches thick. The 
human bones were found in this sand about 10 inches above the base. The 
overlying alluvial beds are stratified, and, as usual, conform to the irregulari 
ties of the underlying formation. The human bones at this place were found 
and removed by the writer in the presence and with the assistance of Isaac M. 
Weills and Frank Ayers. The first bone found was a right astragalus; the 
second bone taken in place was the right external cuneiform, which lay at the. 
same level and about 10 inches from the astragalus. About 12 inches farther 
back in the bank \vas found a piece from the right pubes and a part of the left 
FIG. 5. Detail of the section of south bank from about 470 to 478 feet west of the bridge. 
Horizontal and vertical scale, 1 inch equals about 2 feet. Human bones were found 
at or near the contact line between strata 2 and 3. The strata Nos. 2 and 3 correspond 
to strata 2 and 3 of the general section. No. 3 is an alluvial deposit made up of 
alternating layers of sand and muck which were undisturbed. (After Sellards.) 
ilium, including that part of the bone which articulates with the sacrum. 
Upon sifting the sand in which these bones were imbedded there .was obtained, 
in addition, two phalanges, a section from a limb bone, and some other human 
bone fragments. 
The dividing line between strata 2 and 3 of the general section here as else 
where is well marked and unmistakable, and the human bones lay in stratum 
No. 2. The overlying laminated deposit is undisturbed, and hence the bones 
can not represent a recent burial. The vertebrates associated with these bones 
are listed in a subsequent paragraph. 
A list of fossils 
[P. 139] found in stratum No. 2 in association with human bones, flints, and 
implements on the south bank of the canal from 460 to 470 feet west of the 
bridge. The bones found in place in stratum No. 2 at this place include 
the following: Odocoileus sp., left scapula and teeth; Elcphas columbi, tooth 
fragments; Equus leidyif, part of a tooth; Tapirus hay sit?, part of a tooth; 
