. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. PREHISTORIC NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. 6l7 laid amidsliips aloug tlie keel, notched to admit the frames, and above it rests another still larger oaken block (about 12i feet long, a little over 2 feet wide, and lj| feet thick in the middle, but decreasing toward the ends, which are shaped like a fish-tail) grooved to admit the beams; and it is further fixed to the beams by knees or crt»oked timberheads. A little below the center rib a square hole,
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. PREHISTORIC NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. 6l7 laid amidsliips aloug tlie keel, notched to admit the frames, and above it rests another still larger oaken block (about 12i feet long, a little over 2 feet wide, and lj| feet thick in the middle, but decreasing toward the ends, which are shaped like a fish-tail) grooved to admit the beams; and it is further fixed to the beams by knees or crt»oked timberheads. A little below the center rib a square hole, 3 feet 0 in<'hes hmg and 11 inches wide is made in the upper block for the mast, which rests upon tlie surface of the lower l)lock. A stump of the mast, about 2 feet long, wns found standing in the hole, together with a stump support- ing it, whi(;h is formed by a projecting- thick knot of wood, leaving a S])ace between the mast and tlie side of the slot in the mast-block. The intervening space was probibly filled with plugs. A little in front of the mast there is a smaller hole, wliich probably acconimodated some additional suppoit for the Mast I'.LOCK of Tune Ship. ( ^. •'•11,.• ^.• :.l Ttinr/' I-7L>, 1 Just behind the mast llu' nnburnt bones of a man and of a horse were found; there were also some colored glass beads, some ])ieces of carved wood, sonu". clotli and the fragments of a saddh^., and a portion of a snow skate. The inside of the vessel had been covered with a layer of moss before the mound was thrown up over it. According to Mr. (lade. United States consul at Christiauia,^ "in the southern end of the mound at the height of the gunwale and still higher, traces of iron utensils were seen at many i)laces, but they were so rusted away that there was hardly anything left but some stripes of rust in the earth. Nothing of it could be preserved and it was (udy in a few instances ])ossible to make out wha
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