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[[underline]] chusetts. [[/underline]] _Collection from shell-heaps at Old Enterprise, Mellonville, Lake Munroe, Lake Harney, and Spear's Landing, St. John's River, Florida: 32 shell adzes, 14 fragments of do., 1 shell chisel or gouge, 1 shell sinker, 1 shell bead, 23 fragments of pottery, 3 fragments of potstone vessels, 1 grinding stone, 2 worked prongs of antlers, 3 bears teeth and 1 small piece of galena. A very good collection.

[[underline]] Ernest C. Brown, Warren, Jo Daviess County, Illinois. [[/underline]] _Collection from mounds and their vicinity in Jo Daviess County: 1 large digging tool, leaf-shaped implements, scrapers, perforators, arrow and spear-heads, polished celts, grooved axes, 1 pierced stone object of unknown use, 1 fragment of a platform-pipe, and fragments of pottery.  I take from Mr. Brown's letter the following: "The mounds are situated on a bluff about 100 feet high. So far as opened they appear to be sepulchral, the bodies lying with the heads to the south. They were all encased in Trenton limestone slabs of about 8 inches in thickness and from 2 to 5 feet long. Relics are very rare.

[[underline]] W.C. Brown, Liverpool, Perry County, Pennsylvania. [[/underline]] _Collection from Perry County: Rude chipped implements, arrow-heads, rude celts, 1 pestle, notched sinkers, and fragments of pottery.

[[underline]] G. W. Emrick, Northumberland, Northumberland County, [[/underline]]