548 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 



ative sizes are preserved in the diagram. The ground is covered with 

 timber. A stump standiDg on one of the mounds indicated an age of 

 over two hundred years. The soil was a very hard, sandy clay. The 



Plan III. 



space A of the diagram was inclosed and used as a hog-lot. None of 

 the mounds were over three feet high. Nos. 1, 5, 4, and 7 were opened, 

 but nothing whatever was found. In No. 2 we found no bones, but 

 two rude vessels, holding about one quart each, made of clay and coarse 

 sand molded on the inside of a grass basket and then burned, as evi- 

 denced by the ipipressions of the grass on the outside. No. 3 contained 

 the remains of several individuals, lying side by side, but too badly de- 

 cayed to be preserved. No. 6 had been bored through years before for 

 a well ; quantities of broken bones were brought to the surface. Our 

 time did not allow of any further explorations. The regularity in the 

 arrangement of the mounds presented a weird appearance in the forest. 

 Some of the mounds on the bluffs opened at same time jielded the same 

 results. On one a white-oak tree, three feet in diameter, was growing. 

 Eude vessels and stone axes have been found in the neighboring mounds. 



