Note 1681 — Chapter VI · (continued 2)
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The instances are not rare of mummies being found in caves of the Mississippi Valley; but there is no evidence adduced of any great age attaching to them. Cf. N. S. Shaler on the antiquity of the caverns and cavern life of the Ohio Valley, in Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. Mem., ii. 355 (1875); and on desiccated remains, see the Archæologia Amer., i. 359; Brinton’s Floridian Peninsula, App. ii. On the American caves see Nadaillac’s L’Amérique préhistorique, ch. 2.