fome oblique, fome horizontal, and direfted to every point of the compafs, en- , tangled, and held together in clufters by the earth. Bones of the moft diftant parts were found together, as, for inftance, the fmall bones of the foot in the hollow of a fcull; many fculls would fometimes be in contaft, lying on the face, on the fide, on the back, top or bottom, fo as, on the whole, to give the idea of bones emptied promifcuoufly from a bag or baf- ket, and covered over with earth, with- out any attention to their order. The bones of which the greateft numbers re- mained, were fculls, jaw-bones, teeth, the bones of the arms, thighs, legs, feet and hands. A few ribs remained, fome ver- tebrae of the neck and fpine, without their procefles, and one inftance only of the* bone v\^hich ferves as a bafe to the vertebral column. The fculls were fo tender, that they generally fell to pieces on being touched. The other bones were ftronger. There were fome teeth which were judged to be fmaller than thofe of * The OS facrum.
[ ^88 ] an adult; a fcull which on a flight view, appeared to be that of an infant, but it fell to pieces on being taken out, fo as to prevent fatisfaftory examination; a rib, and a fragment of the under jaw of a per- fon about half grown; another rib of an infant; and part of the jaw of a child, which had not cut its teeth. This laft furnifhing the mofl: decifive proof of the burial of children here, I was particular in my atttention to it. It was part of the right half of the under jaw. The pro- cefles, by which it was attenuated to the temporal bones, were entire, and the bone itfelf firm to where it had been broken off, which, as nearly as I could judge, was about the place of the eye-tooth. Its upper edge, wherein would have been the fockets of the teeth, was perfedly fmooth.
Meafuring it with that of an adult, by placing their hinder proceffes together, its broken end extended to the penultimate grinder of the