Query IX.

adult. This bone was white, all the others of a fand colour. The bones of infants being foft, they pro- bably decay fooner, which might be the caufe fo few were found here* I pro- ceeded then to make a perpendicular cut through the body of the barrow, that I might examine its internal ftrufture. This pafled about three feet from its centre, was opened to the former furface of the earth, and was wide enough for a man to walk through and examine its fides. At the bottom, that is, on the level of the circumjacent plain, I found bones; above thefe a few ftones, brought from a cliff a quarter of a mile off, and from the river one-eighth of a mile off; then a large in- terval of earth, then a flratum of bones, and fo on. At one end of the feftion were four ftrata of bones plainly diftin- guifhable; at the other, three; the ftrata in one part not ranging with thofe in another. The bones neareft the furface were leaft decayed. No holes were dif- covered in any of them, as if made with bullets, arrows, or other weapons. I conjeftured that in this barrow might have been a thoufand