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the copper beads. I suppose that the teeth alternated with the copper 

 beads and the stained bones. One copper bead, which adheres by its 

 oxidation to the perforated part of a tooth, sustains this conclusion. 

 A rude stone axe, partially polished, lay beside these remains. All 

 indicated that the dead had been peculiarly honored in his burial, and 

 that he had been, perhaps, a noted personage. 



Immediately to the northward of this body another was taken out, 

 skull No. 4, with the remaining bones. These were under the edge 

 of the oak stump, and, as well as the remains of No. 3, Avere sur- 

 rounded with masses of roots. Both bodies lay nearly side by side, 

 and at the same vertical plane, five feet below the surface. As in the 

 other cases, the bones of birds and fishes were found with the remains, 

 but in small quantity. 



The excavation was next carried southward, through the center of 

 the mound, for a short distance ; but no relics being met with other 

 than a few fragments of broken hammers and flint chij)s, it was next 

 opened in the opposite direction, northward, thus giving it the form of 

 an irregular Latin cross. When a few feet to the northward of the 

 remains last taken out (No. 4), we came upon skull No. 5, and follow- 

 ing up the indications, recovered such of the remaining bones as could 

 be preserved. With this body a flint arrowhead and some other rude 

 stone implements were found ; also a number of small shells, the 

 species of which I have not determined, but which appear to have 

 been used for some special purpose, perhaps as ornaments, as they 

 were ground smooth at the base. About twelve of these were recovered, 

 but there must have been many more originally, as a large number of 

 them crumbled to dust, and also some of them might easily have been 

 overlooked. A short distance westward of the last relics skull No. 6 

 was taken out. The accompanying bones, as in the cases of the others, 

 were very tender, and it was with extreme difficulty that any of them 

 were recovered. Tibise exhibited the compression previously referred 

 to in a marked degree. A large mass of fish bones lay in front of 

 this body, which, like the previous remains (skull No. 5, etc.), was 

 buried placed on its right side, Avith the head toward the east and the 

 limbs drawn up closely. to the chest. It is possible that they may 

 have been buried in a sitting or crouched position, and have afterward 

 fallen over ; but I think they were buried as first mentioned. The 

 absence of pottery with the interments in this mound is worthy of 

 note, only two fragments being found in any part of the mound, and 

 these apparently accidentally dropped. 



Isolated excavations in different places throughout the extent of 

 Mound No. 3, as also in a mound sixty feet to the west of it, contribu- 

 ted nothing specially entitled to record. 



