. Notes of sites of Huron villages in the township of Tiny (Simcoe County) and adjacent parts. Prepared with a view to the identification of those villages visited and described by Champlain and the early missionaries . rite camping-ground(for Indians). Near the highest point of land between the town and the lake is adriving-park, which has recently been ac(|uired and laid out by the enterprisingcitizens. In digging a post-hole for fencing purposes near the south-west corner of thepark, the workmen came npon a small ossuary. None of the skulls or other boneswere in sound enough condition to be
. Notes of sites of Huron villages in the township of Tiny (Simcoe County) and adjacent parts. Prepared with a view to the identification of those villages visited and described by Champlain and the early missionaries . rite camping-ground(for Indians). Near the highest point of land between the town and the lake is adriving-park, which has recently been ac(|uired and laid out by the enterprisingcitizens. In digging a post-hole for fencing purposes near the south-west corner of thepark, the workmen came npon a small ossuary. None of the skulls or other boneswere in sound enough condition to be preserved, but in the middle and at thebottom of the pit were found two very tine native copper implements. Both ofthese, when placed in the grave, were wrapped in Beaver skin, portions of whichyet adhere to one side of each implement. 28 with the bones of the deceased brave it was carefully wrapped inBeaver skin, a portion of which is still adherent to one side. As noEuropean traces were discovered about the burial place, it is safe to say that this implement is at least 260years old, and may be much more. Along with the curved knife alreadydescribed from Midland, there wasfound a very gracefully formed copper.
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