Query IX.

fupport him ; that when another died, a narrow paflage was dug to the firft, the B b fecond reclined againfl him, and the cover of earth replaced, and fo on. There being one of thefe in my neighbourhood, I wifhed to fatisfy myfelf whether any, and which of thefe opinions werejuft. For thispur- pofe I determined to open and examine it thoroughly. It was fituated on the low grounds of the Rivanna, about two miles above its principal fork, and oppofite to fome hills, on which had been an Indian town. It was of a fpheroidical form, of about 40 feet diameter at the bafe, and had been of about twelve feet altitude, though now reduced by the plough to fe- ven and a half, having been under culti- vation about a dozen years. Before this it was covered with trees of 12 inches diameter, and round the bafe was an ex- cavation of five feet depth and width, from whence the earth had been taken of which the hillock was formed. I firfl: dug fuperficially in feveral parts of it, and came to colledions of human bones, at different depths, from fix inches to three feet below the furface. Thefe were lying in the utmoft confufion, fome vertical.