LOUISIANA. 



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11^ inches in length. They were four in number and wrought from 

 pure flint-rock. 



Second. — Description of strata heloiv the grave to depth of the well. 



1. Immediately below the grave a red deposit, like clay, 20 feet. 



2. Then four feet through white clay. 



3. And remainder of the distance through blue clay, until water was 

 found 71 feet below the surface. 



The ancient crockery, «&;c., I send you was found one and a half miles 

 above Shreveport, in Bossier Parish, at a cut-off made in Red Eiver by 

 the swamp-laud commissioner in 1859. 



Eighteen feet beneath surface, through Red River soil to the deposit 

 — which underlies all the red soil of the valley — the washing of the river 

 has exposed a large burial-ground, containing numbers of remains of 

 bodies and of articles buried with them, such as implements of cooking, 

 jugs, plates, &c., of a peculiar workmanship ; also, remains of some- 

 thing, supposed to be a turtle. 



MOUNDS IN lOlISIANA. 



By Prof. Samuel H. Lockett, of the Louisiana State University, Baton Kouge. 



While prosecuting my topographical survey of Louisiana this summer 

 I visited, near Jackson's Ferry, fonr miles south of Floyd, on Bayou 

 Magon, some very remarkable Indian mounds. Six of these are within 

 a mile of Mrs. Jackson's. Four of them are almost perfect ; the other 

 two are partly destroyed by the caving of the banks of the Bayou Ma- 

 5on. They are connected with each other by a levee or narrow embank- 

 ment of earth, making a nearly semicircular figure. There are two 

 much larger mounds nearer to Floyd, one on Mr. Mabin's, and one on 

 Mr. Motley's land. The latter must be between 20 and 30 feet in height. 



