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the centre of it by a rivet, the hole for which appears both in the plate & ornament. At this place the remains of a skeleton were found. No part retained its form but a portion of the forehead or skull, which lay under the plate of copper. These bones are deeply tinged with green, and appear to have been preserved by the salts in the copper. In an ancient mound of the streets of Marietta, in the margin of the plane near the fortifications, amongst other things, in 1819, were discovered three large circular bosses?, or ornaments, for sword belts, or a buckler, composed of copper, oval and with a thick plate of silver. The front is slightly convex, with a depression like a cap in the centre. The measure, two inches & a quarter across the face of each. On the back side, opposite the depressed portion, is a copper rivet or nail, around which are two separate plates, by which they were fastened to the leather. Two small pieces of the leather were found lying between the holes of one of the bosses?. They resemble the skin of an old mummy. The plates of copper are nearly reduced to rust. Around the rivet of one of them, is a quantity of flax or hemp, in a tolerable state of preservation. Near the side of the human body was a plate of silver, the upper part of a sword scabbard, six inches long, two wide, weighing one ounce. Three longitudinal ridges were