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MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY.
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west, one to the south, and one to the northeast. With the bones were fragments of sandstone burned red; at or near each skull, and nearly on a line between the point of the shoulder and ear, was a water-worn pebble, except in one instance, and in that it was an angular piece of flint.
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Fig. 1.
The pebbles had not been acted upon by the fire, so that they most evidently have been placed there after the intense heat had sub-