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of seal-skin or deer-skin were found among the 
bones: these were evidently the remains of the 
dresses in which the bodies had been interred. 
The graves were all dug in the earth, not built 
above the surface, as is the practice in rocky dis¬ 
tricts, and were covered over with slabs of sand¬ 
stone or slate, with pieces of wood or bone laid 
across; and the bottom of many was lined with 
clay-slates. In all the human skulls found, it 
was remarked that the chin was very prominent, 
and the forehead greatly retreating. 
Numerous pieces of rein-deers’ horns were 
found about the hamlet. These had been artifi¬ 
cially divided, in a manner that I should think 
peculiar to these people, Not having any instru¬ 
ment of the nature of a saw, the natives evidently 
effect the division of hard bones by drilling rows 
of contiguous holes. In this way, branches had 
been separated from the rein-deers’ horns; and 
even longitudinal sections of unicorns’ horns, of 
more than two inches in diameter, had been ac¬ 
complished. As this latter substance is a real 
ivory, and consequently hard and close-grained, it 
cannot be drilled, I imagine, but with the use of 
iron. I sought in vain for any thing like a drill; 
but these instruments being probably of great 
value to the natives, had been carefully collected 
when the hamlet was deserted, and only the less 
