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iu accordance with any definite plan, but are scattered about promis- 

 cuously ou the northern boundary of the lot. Several mounds are situ- 

 ated on an east and west line. 



INDIAIs'- JIOUNDS 



DEV CTREEK XN' SACRED GROVE 



EAULY CO. CxA. 

 Surveyed Ity James X. Evan 

 County i^urvvyer. 



Scale aO chs. to the iuch. 



It will be seen by a reference to the diagram that there is a spring 

 marked on it, and that there is an open space free of mounds between 

 this spring and a pond to the west of it. We know not for what this 

 open space was intended, but there cannot be any doubt that there was 

 a design in the arrangement. It may have been used as a parade- 

 ground or for games. From the fact that human bones have been 

 exhumed from some of these mounds, we are led to the conclusion that 

 they are places of sepulcher. The great pyramid of Kolee IMokee is the 

 only one of this form in Georgia, while the large mound of Dry Creek 

 is entirely unique in all its main features. It is evidently a mound of 

 sacrifice. A little stone idol was found on it. The site of this group 

 of mounds is covered with a grove of black-walnut trees 100 feet high, 

 and the mounds themselves are hidden in the depths of the almost im- 

 penetrable swamp, so as to be wholly unknown, until lately, even to 

 the oldest inhabitants of the neighborhood. 



