Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . with. In one casethe bundle included the long bones of two bodies. Two crania surmounted it. The bones were badly decayed and crushed, in many cases nothing remainingbut small and friable pieces. By the aid of shellac applied in place, four skulls, ina somewhat fragmentary condition, were One femur gave an index of 114. Five tibite gave an average lateral index of 637, the oscillation exponent2being 1*1. Three humeri were recovered. All showed perforation. IMPLEMENTS, ETC. In all, nine polished hatchets, from 3-5 inchesto 8-5
Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . with. In one casethe bundle included the long bones of two bodies. Two crania surmounted it. The bones were badly decayed and crushed, in many cases nothing remainingbut small and friable pieces. By the aid of shellac applied in place, four skulls, ina somewhat fragmentary condition, were One femur gave an index of 114. Five tibite gave an average lateral index of 637, the oscillation exponent2being 1*1. Three humeri were recovered. All showed perforation. IMPLEMENTS, ETC. In all, nine polished hatchets, from 3-5 inchesto 8-5 inches in length, were found; some associatedwith human remains, but the majority isolated. Inaddition the mound yielded a handsome lance headof chert and a perforated stone tablet 225 inches inlength (fig. 4). Curiously enough, all relics, andthe great majority of interments, lay in the easternhalf of the mound. POTTEEY. Throughout the mound were occasional frag-ments of undecorated pottery. In addition, super-ficially, were two brightly colored Fig. 4. Stone Tablet (full size). CONCLUSIONS. All burials in this mound are believed to be original,with the whites was discovered. No trace of intercourse Mt. Royal, Putnam County. On the east bank of the St. Johns, just below where the river leaves LakeGeorge, in a great grove of bearing orange trees, not 300 yards from the watersedge, stands Mt. Royal. Its owner, David Wright, Esq., of Auburn, New York, fully appreciating theinterest attached to this famous monument whose makers now are nameless, haslong followed the example set by former possessors of the St. Johns largest mound,and kept it intact, carefully guarding it against the depredations of unsystematicrelic hunters. Mt. Royal, then, prior to our visit (April, 1893), knew no explorerother than the gopher,3 the salamander,4 and the scarlet XA11 crania will be described by Dr. Harrison Allen with the second part of this account of Tick Island. 3G
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