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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 bought to the irresistible conclusion, that these are the remain, 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 nmear lake eric , are skeletons of people of small stature".36%

  "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 , Mrdane , from whom the information first came , was written to ; -all his feelings were alive and all his exertions were roused .The results was a comunication , sometime afterwards,from him , carefully reduced to writing ; which , with the materials refered to , were submitted to the examination of medical gentle men at nashvile . The written communication from Mr Lane, was dated on the 26 th of 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