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A second method was, when the body bent together and wrapped in birch rinds was enclosed in a sort of box on the ground this box was made of small square posts laid on each other horizontally, and notched at the corners to make them meet close it was about four feet high, three feet broad, and two-feet-and-a-half deep, well lined with birch rind, so as to exclude the weather from the inside the body was always laid on its right side.

Joseph Noad - Lecture on the Aborigines of Newfoundland : Delivered Before the Mechanics' Institute, at St. John's, : Newfoundland, on Monday, 17th January, 1859