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two skeletons lying close together, the head of one being to the east- 

 ward and that of the other to the westward. Near the hand and arm 

 bones of the northerly skeleton was a pipe, and one and one-half 

 feet east of both a discoidal stone and a few pieces of flint and pot- 

 tery. Of the latter the fragments are certainly pieces of the same 

 pot of which pieces were also found in mound No. 2. 



Mound No. 10 of this row is about five feet high. Four and one- 

 half feet down we found three skeletons with the heads to the west, 

 and beneath these were scattered a number of the larger bones of the 

 human body. No other relics were found. 



The eleventh mound is smallest of all, about two and one-half feet 

 high. Three feet down was one skeleton. No other relics. 



The skulls in these mounds were found with the face upward in 

 some instances, and in other cases downward. The bones in gen- 

 eral were tolerably well preserved. The earth of which the mounds 

 were formed was taken from the immediate vicinity. The skeletons 

 were usually i-ather toward the easterly side of the mound. 



About half a mile west of the above is another group of nine 

 mounds, from three to seven feet in height. The fourth mound, 

 num])ering from the west, was opened by an excavation six feet 

 square and five feet deep. A great many human bones were found 

 in much disorder, and must have been the remains of many skele- 

 tons. No other relics. 



In the ninth of this group, which was four feet high, I found, four 

 feet deep, the remains of two skeletons with heads westward. The 

 earth was mixed with ashes and coals. No other relics found. 



Mound No. 6 was of the same size as No. 9; and four feet deep 

 were found a few human arm and leg bones, and nothing more. 



Mound No. 3 was about three feet high; and from the surface 

 down to the undisturbed earth at the bottom was nothing -to be 

 found but a mixture of burned clay, ashes and coals. 



Mound No. 1, a short distance eastward from the rest of this group, 

 was the smallest of them all, composed of sand and ashes, mixed 

 with a great many pieces of broken pottery. A number of little 

 burned limestones were lying three feet doAvn, on the undisturbed 

 earth below the ashes. This mound was certainly a fire-place. 



Mound No. ,5, on a prominent point commanding a grand view of 

 the valley, is the largest of the group. Here we made an excava- 

 tion of eight by ten feet, down to the natural soil, where we found, 

 about in the center, a grave, five and one-half by three feet, and one 



