768 PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 



Over the left orbital cavity, and just above the superciliary arch, is a 

 perforation one-half inch in diameter. Another perforation occurs in 

 the right parietal bone, near the sagittal suture. 



On the farm of Cyrus Ames, and on the alluvial terrace, several years 

 ago, the river washed out a hollow structure, composed of stone care- 

 fully laid up in the form of a well or cistern. This subterranean vault 

 had no visible outlet. Near it was found a rude mortar. 



It is probable that other remains occur on the plain of Belpre and on 

 the Virginia side, but as attention was not called to any other ancient 

 works, this account must here come to a close. 



ABORIGINAL STEUCTUEES IN OAEEOLL COUNTY, 



TENNESSEE. 



By James M. Null, of McKenzie^ Tenn. 



The aboriginal structures in this county are four mounds, situated in 

 the southwest corner of civil district No. 22, three of them on Clear 

 Creek, and one on Crooked Creek, 4 miles south of McKenzie, Tenn. 

 Crooked Creek and Clear Creek are small, ever-running streams, with 

 swampy bottoms and miry banks, without any fords except where they 

 are crossed by the old Indian trails. Mound No. 1 is 8 feet high and 30 

 feet in diameter, being situated in a front yard. The owner will not 

 allow it to be explored. It is on a ridge running down to a point on the 

 creek, half way between a spring 300 feet distant on the west and a 

 bluff 20 feet high on the east. On it were standing, when first occu- 

 pied 35 years ago, a chestnut and a sweet gum tree, each 2^ or 3 feet 

 ai diameter. 



Mound No. 2 is on the south bank of Clear Creek, three-fourths of a 

 mile from mound No. 1, in a northwest direction, 350 feet from a bluff 

 ]5 feet high, and 200 feet from a spriug. It was originally not more 

 than 3 feet high and 30 feet in diameter, was in a horse lot twenty-five 

 years or more, and has beon plowed over for 10 years, so as to be nearly 

 obliterated. During the plowing nothing in the way of relics has been 

 discovered. 



Mound No. 3, one-half mile northeast of No. 2, is on the east side 

 of a bluff 20 feet high, and 200 feet distant, and about the same dis- 

 tance from a spring. It was 6 feet high and 25 feet in diameter when 

 explored a few years ago. A man dug a cellar in it, knowing it to be 

 an " Indian mound," hoping to find valuables. He sunk a pit 12 by 14 

 feet, 2 feet below the original surface, and found nothing but " red 

 dirt," as he expressed it. 



Mound No. 4, 6 feet high and 20 feet in diameter, is one-half a mile 

 northeast of No. 3, and 1^ miles north of No. 1, with a spring 300 feet 

 and a bluff GOO feet distant on the east. It is situated in the woods. 



