DESCRIPTION OF MOL^DS 



Mound No. 1 



Mound No. 1 (No. 24 on the plan of Santa Eita (fig. 14), situated 

 midway between Nos. 6 and 22) was conical in shape, nearly circular 

 at the base, 18 feet high, and 90 feet in circumference. It was built 

 throujjhout of large irregular blocks of limestone, the interstices being 



Fig. 14.— Plan of Santa Rita mounds. 



filled with limestone dust and earth, fonning together a sort of friable 

 mortar, which rendered the whole structure nearly as compact as a 

 solid block of masonry. 



Excavation near the center of the mound, at a depth of 2 feet below 

 the surface, brought to fight a large circular disk of roughly hevni 

 limestone, 3 feet in diameter by 8 inches thick. On lif tuig this it was 



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