The innermost tegument is a mantle of cloth, like the preceding, but furnished with large brown feathers, arranged and fashioned with great art, so as to be capable of guarding the living wearer from wet and cold.  The plumage is distinct and entire, and the whole bears a near similitude to the feathery cloaks now worn by the nations of the northwestern coast of America.  A Wilson might tell from what bird they were derived.

The body is in a squatting posture, with the right arm reclining forward, and its hand encircling the right leg.  The left arm hangs down, with its hand inclined partly under the seat.  The individual, who was a male, did not probably exceed the age of fourteen at his death.  There is near the oociput a deep and extensive fracture of the skull, which probably killed him.  The skin has sustained little injury; it is of a dusky colour, but the natural hue cannot be decided with exactness, from its present appearance.  The scalp, with small exceptions, is covered with sorrel or foxey hair.  The teeth are white and sound.  The hands and feet, in their shrivelled state, are slender and delicate.  All this is worthy the investigation of our acute and perspicacious colleague, Dr. Holmes.

There is nothing bituminous or aromatic in or about the body, like the Egyptian mummies, nor are there bandages around any part.  Except the several wrappers, the body is totally naked.  There is no sign of a suture or incision about the belly; whence it seems that the viscera were not removed.

     It may now be expected that I should offer some opinion as
     to the antiquity and race of this singular exsiccation.

     First, then, I am satisfied that it does not belong to that
     class of white men of which we are members.

2dly.  Nor do I believe that it ought to be referred to the bands of Spanish adventurers, who, between the years 1500 and 1600, rambled up the Mississippi, and along its tributary streams.  But on this head I should like to know the opinion of my learned and sagacious friend, Noah Webster.

     3dly.  I am equally obliged to reject the opinion that it
     belonged to any of the tribes of aborigines, now or lately
     inhabiting Kentucky.

4thly.  The mantle of the feathered work, and the mantle of twisted threads, so nearly resemble the fabricks of the indigines of Wakash and the Pacifick Islands, that I refer this individual to that era of time, and that generation of men, which preceded the Indians of the Green River, and of the place where these relicks were found.  This conclusion is strengthened by the consideration that such manufactures are not prepared by the actual and resident red men of the present day.  If the Abbe Clavigero had had this case before him,