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Show PRE-HISTOHIC REMAINS DISCOVERED DIS-COVERED IN OREGON. A gentleman ol this city has re- 5 ceived a letter from a friend named Park hurst, who has been hunting v and trapping on Snake river during the winter, with Headquarters near Farewell Bend. The letter is quite J Interesting, as it contiins an a.:couiu of the disjuvery ol a woudfrful cave j some ten or twelve mil.s below tho Bend. The cave but was found several months ago, I never explored until two weeks ago, when a wolf was followed into its gloomy recesses. By tho use of torches the exploring party found J that the cave expended into solid rock y. a distance of two hundr. d yards, the arch riMiii toaheighlof fifteen feet to twenty feet from the entrance. The floor waa quite dry, but strewn with aQ the remains of a num her of skeletons loi of wild animals, some of them show- ing evidences oi freshness and others Rc were yellow with agw At the farthest hi extremity of the cavern four human skeletons were fjund. dark as ebony, ), tho enamel worn olf, und the bones U finely perforated in many places with minute holes. A measurement of the skeletons was taken. One was seven feet sir inches in length, tl another seven feet exactly, one six feet five inches, and the tallest eight n feet. They were lying side by side, as if placed there by human hands, " or as if their former owners had found l death white seeking tdeop. One ol i the party, who had studied anatomy, L pronounced the smallest skeletons those ol females. Tho teeth in the : skulls were the best preservtd. Near i i the skeletons were found a stone 1 hatchet, several stone vessels, a pestle, ) and a number of flint arrow-heads. i The writer of the letter Bays an eilorl r will soon be made to make it an t object lor Professor Condon to come 1 up there and icnlidcally examine the cave, skeletons, etc., an all nelieve 1 r the race belong to a prehistoric race o of giants. Portlaud Evcnimj Journal. |