almost any artificial honey of the day, it will not
become like lard in cold weather, which change is a natural proof that
it is pure. For almost any purpose, pure honey is preferable to that
which has been adulterated, but purity is a minor consideration with
many.

Next we shall hear of some fastidious customer who objects to pure
lard, because it looks white when cold. To such we would recommend
lard oil as a great improvement, especially for cooking purposes.

A. M. B.
Louisville, Ky.

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[For the Scientific American.]

RAMBLES FOR RELICS.

NUMBER II.

At a depth of fifteen feet, we were about to suspend our labors,
supposing from the nature and uniformly dark color of the earth,
that we had reached the surface of the alluvium, when a sign of the
inevitable wood and bark layer was seen in a crevice. An excavation,
five or six feet, into the wall, revealed the skeleton of a man laid
at length, having an extra coverlid of wooden material. Eighteen large
oblong beads, an ax of polished green stone, eleven arrow points, and
five implements of bone (to be described) were deposited on the
left side; and a few small beads, an ornamental shell pin, two small
hatchets, and a sharp-pointed flint knife or lance, eight inches long,
having a neck or projection at the base, suitable for a handle, or for
insertion in a shaft, on the right side. The earth behind the skull
being removed, three enormous conch shells presented their open
mouths. One of my assistants started back as if the ghost of the
departed had come to claim the treasure preserved, in accordance with
superstitious notions, for its journey to the "happy lands." The alarm
seemed to be a warning, for at the moment the embankment, overloaded
on one side, caved in, nearly burying three workmen, myself, and a
spectator. Our tools being at the bottom of the heap, and the wall on
the other side, shaken by the falling earth, giving tokens of a change
of base, our prospects of a ready deliverance were not very hopeful.
The bystanders, however, went to work with their hands, and we were
soon relieved, not without casualty, the spectator having the worst of
it. Struggling to extricate himself, instead of abiding his time, he
dragged one leg out of the pile shorter than the other.

The occurrence of marine shells in a burial depository, especially of
the varieties pyrula and oliva, four or five hundred miles from the
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