The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-12-03

lea. Persevering efforts of several
days were rewarded with the finding of
several other similar mounds, and the
remains oftwenty human beings Two
entire skeletons were found, with the
exception that one Of them lacked two
cervical bones, and the other few Of
1.-THE bones of the hands and feet. The
bones themselves were very friable, and
required the most careful handling to
prevent them from falling into dust
again. The bones which mark the pc
culiar characters of the beings who once
possessed them are those of the crani-
um. 1t is well known that the heads
of Europeans and all defendants of the
caucasian race are usually much great
or in length and breath. They have
what IS technically called the dolicko-
cephalic skull, while the IFoquOis Indi-
aus, who inhabited America at the
landing of Columbus, possessed square
heads, or skull which archeologist cal
ed 6r0chy-cepkqlie. The skulls found
at Thstcher's Farm are of the 6rGcky-
cephalic type, and this fact stamps them
as being at least as old as the first dis
covery of Americs. 1t is saiG that the
influences Of civilization have entirely
changed the shape Of the Indians skull
so that the present tribes, no matter
how much isolated from the white man
present no cases of the antique Indian
head. Another evidence of the anti
quitY of these remains is the position in
which they were found. Professor
Stimson was obliged to remove a large
tree which grew on one of the mounds
to reach the skeletons. A cross sec.
ton Of this tree disclosed eighty-seven
rings, and since botanists claim that the
evidence of the fist fifteen years,
growth of old trees has been obliterat-
ed, it follows that this tree was at least
one hundred years old. The mounds
were about two feet above the surface
of the prairie, were oval in shape, and |
were about four or Eve feet wide, and |
from ten to twenty feet IN length. They /
were each surrounded by a well-defned /
trench. Before reaching the remains
a layer of hard blue clay was penetrat-
ed and the bones were found rsposing |
in bed of graval. The remains were
fouBd three feet below the surface. The
tombs of the 'mound builders" as they
are called, are supposed to have been
constructed by the ancestors of the an
cient Aztecs, or by the Aztecs themsel-
YES. The remains are usulIy found ar
ranged in regular order, and accom-
panied with tools, weapons, and imple-
ments, by which their great antiquity is
and, to some extent, measured.
The mounds discovered last week by
Professor Stimson, contained no tools
or weapons; or at least none have vet
been discovered, although, as the re-
have not terminated, It is not
these objects may vet be
found. The remains we're apparently
thrown together promiscuously, as if
.he rights Of sepulture bad been hurried
at the close of a battle. I
From all the circumstances it is believ-
ID that when the beings were buried {
here the place was the margin of the
axe, and thus the phenomena are close
y connected with another interesting
ieries of question relating to the lake
md its physical condition and bound y
lries before the shores were discovered
~ Europeans. On yesterday, another
mound was discovered, circular in its
orm, and larger and higher than the
'thers. It has not Jet been investi-
rated so as to determine what is the q
.harscter of its eontents.-C Cbiea6o
Times.