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and 55 feet; its height when oxaiiiined, 5 feet, which was probably 

 much less than its original height. The excavation of the work re- 

 vealed burials as indicated on the plan (fig. 12), Thirteen entire 

 slveletons were found, and " at c lay 12 skulls on the same level, three 

 feet below the surface of the mound, touching each other, with no other 

 bones in connection with or immediately about them. At 5, a little 

 west of the center, and resting on the original surface, was a rough 

 ■wall, about two feet high, built of slate stones; circular in form, 

 inclosing a space about nine feet in diameter. The dirt inside being 

 cleared away, twelve skulls and a large number of long and other 

 bones were discovered. Eleven of the skulls were lying close to- 





Fifi, 12. — Burials in mound at Chote. 



gether on one side, as shown in the figure, the other lying alone 

 on the opposite side, but each entirely disconnected from the other 

 parts of the skeleton to whicli it belonged. The other bones were 

 much broken and mingled together in a promiscuous mass. West 

 of the wall and near the west end of the mound were five more skulls 

 lying together, and amid other bones, marked a in the figure. The 

 bottom of tlie inclosure, which corresponded with the original sur- 

 face of the ground, was covered for an inch or two with coals and 

 ashes, on which the skulls and other bones rested. But neither coal 

 nor ashes were found outside of the wall. All the skeletons and 

 other remains outside of the wall lay a foot or more above the 

 original surface of the ground." (Thomas, (1), pp. 378-879.) 



