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although many were measured , proved to be in length more than four feet, two or three inches. From these facts , if is said, the mind is brought to the irresistible conclusion, that these are the remains of beings, differing altogether from, and inferior in general size to, ourselves. There is large growth of timber on these mounds.

In certain ancient works near lake Eric, are skeletons of people of small stature". 361.

-- "Certain small tombs, and skeletons in them, having been discovered a few miles from Sparta, in the county of White, and a publication having been made concurring them, in the Nashville Whig, of June, 1820, Mr Lane?, from whom the information first came, was written to; - all his feelings were alive and all his exertions were roused. The result was a communication, some time afterwards, from him, carefully reduced to writing; which, with the materials referred to, were submitted to the examination of medical gentlemen at Nashville. The written communication from Mr Lane, was dated on the 26th July 1820; and stated, that he had undertaken to make some further discoveries amongst the little tombs which seemed to be peculiar to the settlement in which he lived, a few miles from Sparta. He found in one of the small graves (the package no.1) the fractured part of a skeleton. The grave, as usual, was about two feet in length, and 14 inches broad, and 16 inches deep from