“In the digging of saltpetre earth, in the short cave, a flat rock was met with by the workmen, a little below the surface of the earth in the Cave; this stone was raised, and was about four feet wide and as many long; beneath it was a square excavation about three feet deep and as many in length and width.  In this small nether subterranean chamber, sat in solemn silence one of the human species, a female with her wardrobe and ornaments placed at her side.  The body was in a state of perfect preservation, and sitting erect The arms were folded up and the hands were laid across the bosom; around the two wrists was wound a small cord, designed probably, to keep them in the posture in which they were first placed; around the body and next thereto, was wrapped two deer-skins.  These skins appear to have been dressed in some mode different from what is now practised by any people, of whom I have any knowledge.  The hair of the skins was cut off very near the surface.  The skins were ornamented with the imprints of vines and leaves, which were sketched with a substance perfectly white.  Outside of these two skins was a large square sheet, which was either wove or knit.  This fabric was the inner bark of a tree, which I judge from appearances to be that of the linn tree.  In its texture and appearance, it resembled the South Sea Island cloth or matting; this sheet enveloped the whole body and the head.  The hair on the head was cut off within an eighth of an inch of the skin, except near the neck, where it was an inch long.  The color of the hair was a dark red; the teeth were white and perfect.  I discovered no blemish upon the body, except a wound between two ribs near the back-bone; one of the eyes had also been injured.  The finger and toe nails were perfect and quite long.  The features were regular.  I measured the length of one of the bones of the arm with a string, from the elbow to the wrist joint, and they equalled my own in length, viz:  ten and a half inches.  From the examination of the whole frame, I judged the figure to be that of a very tall female, say five feet ten inches in height.  The body, at the time it was first discovered, weighed but fourteen pounds, and was perfectly dry; on exposure to the atmosphere, it gained in weight by absorbing dampness four pounds.  Many persons have expressed surprise that a human body of great size should weigh so little, as many human skeletons of nothing but bone, exceed this weight.  Recently some experiments have been made in Paris, which have demonstrated the fact of the human body being reduced to ten pounds, by being exposed to a heated atmosphere for a long period of time.  The color of the skin was dark, not black; the flesh was hard and dry upon the bones.  At the side of the body lay a pair of moccasins, a knapsack and an indispensable or reticule.  I will describe these in the order in which I have named them.  The moccasins were made of wove or knit bark, like the wrapper I have described.  Around the top there was a border