sides are cut through the bark for three feet from the ground. At the bottom of each face there is chipped a crotch or cup holding a pint or glass of sap which is gathered once cool over. The sap is very thick and put into barrels and taken to the turpentine distillery where the turpen- tine is extracted in a still. In the afternoon examined are the skeleton and more found by Mr Burns. I am very much disappointed with them. The skulls are a mass of crushed bone and it is a question whether anything can be made out of them. The skeletons are found on the top of hills in wash outs in th- "prairie". Three of these have been uncovered.