﻿LOUISIANA, 103 



East Baton Rouge County. 



Mound at Batou Eouge, and ou Bayou Mancliac, the latter chiefly 

 composed of shells. 



Mbiitioued in a letter from H. H. Breckeuridge to Thomas Jefterson in Trans. 

 Am. Phil. Soc, vol. 1, new series (1818). p. 15.'>. 



East Carroll (?) County. 



Group of twelve mouuds on the west bank of the Mississippi River, 

 50 miles above Vicksburg. 



Mentioned by James R. Gage, Trans. St. Louis Acad. Sci.. vol. 3 (1868-1877), p. 

 '232. 



Iberia County. 



liemaius of cane baskets and fragments of pottery found many feet 

 below the surface in the salt mine of Petite Anse Island ; on the sur- 

 face, near by, an old pottery kiln. 



Mentioned in Dennett's "Louisiana as it is" (1876), pp. (i4-6.5. 



Madison County. 



Group of earthworks, consisting of seven large and regular mounds 

 and an elevated roadway, half a mile in length, on the right bank of 

 Walnut Bayou, 7 miles fiom the Mississippi River. 



Described in Anc. Mon., pp. 11."), lUi. PI. 3;). 



Morehouse County. 



A group of ancient works, consisting of embankments, mounds, ex- 

 cavations, etc., in Prairie Jefferson, on land formerly belonging to Dr. 

 Harrison. 



Described and figured Anc. Mon., pp. 113, 114, PI. 38, No. 4; also by Prof. G. 

 C. Forsbey, Am. Jour. Sci. and Art, vol. 49 (1845), pp. 38-42. 

 Mounds and pottery, "all about Prairie Jefferson." 



Reported by J. M. Sharp, Sm. Rep., 1879, p. 444. (Probably refers in part to 

 the above well known group.) 

 Mound near Wyko, 2 miles north of Lake La Fourche; tilled with 

 bones and pottery. 



Reported by J. M. Sharp, Sm. Rep., 1879, p, 444, 



A group of three mounds, 1 mile west of Oak Ridge, on the Mississippi 

 bottom land, 2J miles from Lake La Fourche. 



Brief notice by Benjamin H. Brodnas, Sm. Rep., 1879, p. 388, 



Mounds on Bayou Bartholomew, near Plantersville, Sec. 18, T. 22 N., 



R. 7E. 



Described and figured by Beujamiu H. Broduax, Sm. Rep., 1879, pp. 386-388. 



Ouachita County, 



"The Pargoud Gf-oup," consisting of mounds and house sites on a 

 point of laud between Washita River and Chauvin Bayou. 



Briefly described in Report. 



Mounds at Monroe. 



Reported by Dr. Edward Palmer. 



