Bringier on the Region of the Mississippi, &. 37 
ed down leaves a mound, such as a traveller is ve out of 
sight of, from Red river to St. Louis, Missouri T, ritory. 
In this distance of about five hundred ‘miles, inva “breadth 
of, in some places, igh ty,a undred tniles, 
and seldom more than three-quarters of am acre from each 
other, these mounds constantly o¢eur; and, generally, they 
are symmetrically arranged. In alb this extent, there are 
a two-thirds of the surface vac ant. What an immense 
They allcontin the ruins of iain his’ ah many of 
them the bon of the nenbanita and some of their pro- 
ductions?* © sine SAA Spe 
On the banks-of nen where the earth had caved 
ing Fe found — of a ' ‘a i which’ ‘the neck 
bones ai r 
neck bone, as I dug tose pertinre se coul re : 
in part of an earthen box, I found a “pareel of pieces of 
bones eut round, and remaining on the neck in the exact po- 
sition in which they had been used ‘as a necklace. They 
were pierced, but the string had entirely disappeared; they 
were the one-eighth of an inch thick, and three-fifths in di- 
—— and the bones | of which they 9 were made, were 
erved than those of the skeleton. ‘This, I 
dats ade sheba a some parts ‘of that « mtry. =e 
among the clay, which rolled down from the same mound, — 
several pieces of lead ore, Ayers galena,) wig had 
— eaanes there. _ At is not uncommon to to find th is ore 
north h oa base ine omc hem Souk of St Fi | 
wives: °- and . foo aia nce tikes 
