. Michigan historical collections . or thirty feet abruptly above the stream, a most sightly placegiving a beautiful view up and down the river. They were buried insitting position in clay cavities, with bits of charcoal in the bottom ofthe receptacles with rounding domes of clay over them. The first dis-covery was, as Mr. Beerstecher suggests, thought to be the skeleton ofa miner with the visors of the miners cap. But, the three crescentshaped pieces of silver were not, of course, visors, but the ornamentsmuch affected by the Indians and sold to them by the French andEnglish traders.^- The sk
. Michigan historical collections . or thirty feet abruptly above the stream, a most sightly placegiving a beautiful view up and down the river. They were buried insitting position in clay cavities, with bits of charcoal in the bottom ofthe receptacles with rounding domes of clay over them. The first dis-covery was, as Mr. Beerstecher suggests, thought to be the skeleton ofa miner with the visors of the miners cap. But, the three crescentshaped pieces of silver were not, of course, visors, but the ornamentsmuch affected by the Indians and sold to them by the French andEnglish traders.^- The skeletons vary in type, most of them are rathef?short and squat, with the round or bullet type of head. But the onedescribed by Mr. Beerstecher as a chief, is that of a very tall personwith rather a long head. This skeleton must have been that of a man iflftcTi. Pion. and Hist. Colls.\Yol. X, page 579. Invoice of goods sent to Michili-mackinac addressed to Lieut. Govr. Sinclair the 24th May, 1782. 50 Gorgletsare included in the FRENCH AND INDIAN FOOTPRINTS AT THREE RIVERS 391 six or more feet tall. Tlie findings with it were rather the most in-teresting. The mode of bnrial, the place of burial, and the objects found withthem, tell a story of these people and Three Rivers before the Americansettler, a story of Frenchmen and Indians. That these dead were In-dians is indicated by the character of the spot and soil, high andgravelly. The mode indicates it also. Neither French nor Englishbury their dead in the sitting position in fire-baked clay cavities. TheAmerican Indian did so bury his dead. The Alaskan Indians of to-daybury their dead in this position, and place them in wooden receptaclesabove the earth. The objects with the skeletons tell more of theirhistory. They were the trinkets and utensils commonly used in thebarter between the Avhite man and Indian. The English and Frenchtraders received the furs of the Indians in exchange for the silvercrescents, buckles, bracelet
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