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180 NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.
Nov. 7. Therm. 38 . North American Indians.This
morning at nine o'clock, Dr J. T. V. Smith,
Health Officer of Boston, and Captain Sturgis of the
Revenue Service, with a six-oared boat, took me four
or five miles down Boston Bay, to " Pulling Point,"
in the township of Chelsea, where we dug for Indian
skulls. In digging the foundations of a Methodist
meeting-house here, an Indian skull had been disinterred,
which had been presented to Dr Smith, and
from the number of bones discovered, there was reason
to conclude, that this had been an Indian burying-place.
Our six sailors, and some carpenters who
were erecting a house close by, dug around the meeting-house,
and they speedily uncovered the skeleton
the skull of which had been presented to Dr Smith.
It lay north and south, and had been doubled up, with
the knees touching the sternum, and the legs parallel
to the thighs, the elbows close to the sides, the
fore-arms folded up parallel to the humerus, and the
hands resting on the breast. The head lay to the
south. We continued to dig in the same direction,
and found another adult skeleton entire, lying exactly
in the same attitude, the skull in its place, and entire.
We found close by this skeleton, another of a young
person; but the skull had been flattened, the occipital
bone being forced into contact with the frontal
bone, and the temporal bones separated and spread
out.
There could be no doubt of these skeletons being
Indian. The attitude in which the bodies lay corresponds
with that of other bodies found in other In-
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Combe, George, 1788-1858. Notes of the United States of North America, During a Phrenological Visit in 1898-9-40: Volume 1, book, 1841; Edinburgh, Scotland. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1028/m1/220/?q=%221838%3F%22&rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.