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of being removed and preserved. As no positive or historical evidence can be had that these are Natchez crania, I will state the facts from which I infer that they are. The only people known to have been in the country since the French took possession of it are Europeans, Choctaws, Negros and Natchez Indians. The form of these crania clearly determines that they are neither of the first three, and that they represent one of the four is evident from the fact that they were buried with European Ornaments. The form of these crania is unlike that of any tribe of the human race now known, except the Chinook. They arevery much compressed? in their occipito-frontal diameter, so much so as to measure but four inches, while, from ear to ear, they measure six.There can be no doubt but that they were thus deformed during infancy by one unclear being applied to the occipital and another to the frontal dome of the head. Having satisfied myself that theNatchez Indians had flat heads, and recollecting that I found flat heads in the Mounds? of Minginia? I could not resist the conclusion that the Natchez and Monumentals were the same people. But to make the matter more unclear I proceeded to examine the Mounds? of Mig.?. On a plantation four miles above Vicksburg, there are five mounds so arranged as to constitute a circle, one of them is very much larger than the others. The smallest one is situated a little without the circle and it is the only one that was appropriated to Sepulchral purposes. I found many crania in this mound? and succeeded in finding me so well preserved as to admit of having removed without injury. His precisely like the Natchez head. Fourteen miles from Vicksburg on the Yazao river are eight mounds, six of them are as arranged as to form a circle. One of them is very large, but neither of these contain any bones. The other two are some distance from the circle and are filled with human bones. From one of them I disinterred a great number of crania, but obtained only three in such a state of preservation as to admit of being removed without falling into fragments. Two of these were flattened precisely like those above described, the third was left