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Dr. Mills, a local physician, visited our work and informed us that some years ago a Professor or Doctor from Lancaster had unearthed a supposed Indian skeleton in the very place at which we were now working. We had already discovered that the ground had been worked over, and we had little or no expectation of striking an original or unworked stratum. We sounded throughout this locality and found a continuation of these signs. We gathered a great number of flint spieces, more or less worked, with stray or isolated human and animal bones.  the latter were even more important than the former, because they told of the fauna of the locality and epoch. But a slight examination showed us these belonged to the modern fauna and in no case did we find anything belonging to the Megalonyx fauna - the on next preceding the present.

Transcription Notes:
species is misspelled as spieces.