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clay vessel with handles, from a mound on the banks of the Tennessee River, near Florence, Ala[[strikethrough]] bama [[/striekthrough]], and fragments of large wooden troughs, from a cave in Blount County, locally known as the  Crump Cave.  Concerning this cave I copy the following statements from a communication by Mr. Burns:—-- "When the cave was first discovered(in 1840), there were 8 or 10 of these troughs, but now they are all more or less split or injured, except this one. It is about 7 1-2 feet long, 18 or 20 inches wide, and 6 or 7 inches deep. It has been hollowed out by the use of fire, and stone or copper chisels, one of the latter having been found with the troughs, when the cave was first examined. There were also found 12 or 15 skulls, and a large number of other bones, 6 small wooden bowls, tolerably well polished, 5 or 6 wooden trays, somewhat like a modern bread-tray, but very rough and unpolished, a small copper hatchet, one copper chisel 5 inches long, 20 copper ornaments, 6 or 7 large shells, some of which were said to hold a gallon of water, some shell discs or beads, and pieces of bark or cane netting, 6 inches square, but very much decayed. Scattered among the bones were about 200 pounds of very fine lead ore. The troughs did not contain any bones, but some of the lead ore was in one of them. The ornaments mentioned were of native copper, and perhaps beaten out with stone hammers, as the workmanship was very rude. The chisel and one of the ornaments are now at the residence of the late Rev. William Crump, in this county."
^[[symbol for paragraph]] [[underlined in red]] William Pengelly, Torquay, England.--- [[/underlined in red]] ^[[1 m]] Collection of bones, teeth, etc., from Kent's Cavern, near Torquay: [[encircled]] 23 [[/encircled]] finds from the cave-earth or hyenine deposit, and 7 from the breccia or ursine deposit, the oldest in the cavern; in all 1,270 specimens. It is to be regretted that Pengelly has sent the bones undetermined. All I could do was to place them on exhibition according to the layers in which they were found.