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least two others. All stages, from infancy to old age, were repre- 
sented among these corpses. The pots seemed to have been placed 
with or near certain skulls, though this is open to doubt. 
The doorway was, as usual, in the southwest wall. The north side 
was practically vertical; the south side was sloping, either through 
design or because rocks had. slipped down and had not been replaced. 
(Pl. 7, a.) The opening was filled with loose rocks and earth, and 
slabs were set up against the outside. 
The northwest and northeast walls were intact and well laid up. 
(Pl. 7, 6.) The southeast wall contained much earth mingled with 
the stones, and only part of it was found in the original order. This 
confusion is probably due to the relic hunters, as it is not at all 
likely the builders would have left the wall in the condition shown in 
the plate. 
The rocks of the inner walls, with the exception of the southwest 
one, were much smoked and scorched, and some of them burnt; the 
marks of fire were plainly visible even on stones in the lowest layer. 
Evidently large fires were made after the completion of the vault and 
before the filling was begun. No doubt some of the bodies were 
cremated on the spot, but it was clear that most of them, at any rate, 
had been burned outside the vault; the hard-burned earth which 
filled the north end of the vault certainly had been so treated, since 
small lumps of it were scattered through the earth in the south part 
in the direction of, and in, and on the outside of, the doorway. © 
As constructed, the vault measured at the top 13 feet from south- 
west to northeast, 9 feet from southeast to northwest; on the bottom, 
11 feet 2 inches, and 7 feet, respectively. The southwest wall aver- 
aged 3 feet 4 inches in height, the three other walls 3 feet 8 inches. 
The whole structure is well represented in the illustrations. 
Every mound of the Dawson group contained more or less worked 
material loose in the earth, as flint implements, chips, and cores; 
polishing and rubbing stones; pieces of hematite; fragments of 
pottery. ; 
Various other undisturbed mounds exist in the vicinity of Harts- 
burg. 
MOUNDS IN THE VICINITY OF EASLEY, BOONE COUNTY 
Tue Eastey Mounps (10) 
Lying north of Easley post-office, on the Missouri, Kansas and 
Texas railway, is a narrow ridge curving somewhat in the form of a 
horseshoe, the two ends coming almost to the railway tracks. The 
west end of this ridge is a slope, up which it is possible to drive an 
empty wagon; the other drops off in a vertical cliff. Along the crest 
are 9 mounds—5 of them near the east end, 4 at the curve. Six of 
