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pot was uufortunately broken in removing it. I also found an image, 

 but dififering from the other one I found ; this one is hollow and holds 

 half a pint, with a good face and a fine bust. It is evidently intended 

 to represent a woman with the arms hanging on the side, and the hands 

 folded across the abdomen ; the opening is on the back of the head. I 

 also found a small ornament of rock crystal three-fourths of an inch 

 long, with a small hole through one end ; in color it is a beautiful purple, 

 and perfectly translucent. This mound, I am under the impression, 

 was a dwelling-place, from the fact that nothing indicated that it has 

 been used for anything else. Furthermore, we found under the arch a 

 large quantity of charcoal, which appeared as if it had been burned in 

 the place. The arch, we ascertained by digging holes, run through the 

 mound from east to west, and is about six inches thick. I have no 

 doubt but that this is quite an interesting mound, and if properly ex- 

 amined would show much relative to the habits of the mouud-builders. 

 I forgot to mention that I found one of those stones with a hole 

 through it, known in this vicinity by the name of " tool-stones ;" it is 

 about two inches in diameter. I also found three handsome flints. 



ANCIEXT MOUXDS IX KENTUCKY. 



By Dr. Robert Peter, of Lexington, Kentucky. 



I have the pleasure to forward to the Smithsonian Institution, by 

 Adams Express, to-day, a small box, containing a portion of the relics 

 found by my sous and myself in the small ancient mound which we 

 opened on the 19th of October last, to wit : Some of the red earth in 

 which the relics were imbedded, with fragments of much-decomposed 

 bones, charcoal, &g., a number of flint implements of various shapes, 

 portions of soft sandstone which seem to have been used for grinding or 

 polishing implements, a broken door -button -shaped article of the white 

 compact sulphate of baryta, found here in veins in our limestone, and a 

 rude pipe which has been made of soft sandstone. 



The mound is about fifty feet in diameter, not rising in the center 

 more than three feet above the general surface of the woodland pasture 

 in which it is located. Trees as large as any in the woods around grew 

 on the mound, which seemed of sub-soil earth thrown up on the natural 

 surface. 



The flint implements were mostly found arranged in an elliptical 

 figure, they being laid end to end, overlapping each other. 



A little rude, copper bead was found in the earth, which seemed to 

 have been accidentally dropped there. 



This mound is on the farm of Mr. Jer. Tarlton, close to the boundary- 

 line of the farm belonging to myself. It lies about a mile from the other 



