Some Considerations on the Mound Builders. 55 



this region. In the southern tier of States they are, for 

 the most part, large truncated mounds and raised plat- 

 forms of earth, generally with graded ascents, and fre- 

 quently in groups. 



In the Gulf States there are but few works of a mili- 

 tary character. They are scarcely found out of Georgia. 

 One in Fayette, in Mississippi, represented by figure 2, 

 plate xxxviii, in Squire and Davis' work, published bv 

 the Smithsonian Institute, has the appearance of a 

 European work. Its outline is the tracing of a bastion 

 of a regular fortification. The account mentions the 

 freshness of its appearance, and the still preserved 

 sharpness of the angles. Now, in the French campaign 

 against the Chickasaws in May, 1736, D'Artaguette re- 

 mained eleven days in a camp in that neighborhood 

 while waiting to hear of Bienville, and then, leaving his 

 baggage in the camp, marched out to attack the nearest 

 Chickasaw village. I am inclined to consider this work 

 an intrenchment about D'Artaguette's camp. But if the 

 position of this camp was, as stated in Pickett's His- 

 tory of Alabama, a few miles east of Pontotoc, then the 

 work is in just about the position where Montcherval 

 encamped when- coming up with reinforcements. In 

 any event, this work appears to be a French field work 

 of their campaign of 1736, not a work of the Mound 

 Builders. 



In Georgia are several works of a military character, 

 described by Mr. Jones in his Antiquities of the South- 

 ern Indians. All but one near Macon are unimpor- 

 tant. And on the Wateree, in South Carolina, are 

 some defensive works. 



In Tennessee, besides the conical, truncated, and ter- 



