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sleeping place. The “cabins” were probably separated from one 
another by mat partitions, with other mats covering the ground. 
Assuming the diameter to have been correctly given, each of the 16 
divisions would have been 9 or 10 feet in length against the wall. 
The similar structure at St. Marys was evidently much larger, the 
wall space being divided into 32 sections, one of which served as the 
entrance while each of the others, 31 innumber, contained a “cabin” 
or berth about 8 feet in length. The diameter of this house was 
given as 31 feet, but this was evidently an error and should have read 
81. <A house of this size and form could readily have been built by 
the native tribes, as a structure 80 feet or more in diameter, with an 
open space some 20 feet square in the center of the covering, would 
have reduced the maximum expanse of the roof to about 30 feet. A 
roof of these dimensions and having several supports could easily 
have been constructed in a locality where long, slender pines were 
plentiful. 
About 20 years ago the remains of an ancient structure were dis- 
covered in a shell mound standing on Little Island, on the left, or 
north, side of Broad River, about 20 miles from the ocean, in Beaufort 
County, South Carolina. This would have been within the limits of 
the country occupied by the Yamasi at the time of Dickenson’s nar- 
rative. The mound was elliptical in outline and measured about 150 
feet from north to south and 100 feet from east to west. Its height 
was 14 feet. The remains of the structure were encountered in the 
north half of the mound. They were of a building having four walls 
with rounded corners, the entrance being at the southeast corner.: 
A plan of the house is reproduced in figure 11. It averaged about 41 
feet from east to west and 36 feet from north to south, being rather 
irregular. The walls were about 4 feet 3 inches in height, and had 
a maximum thickness near the top of 5 inches. The walls had been 
made of wattlework covered with clay, and although the wood had 
long ago rotted away the impressions of the posts and connecting 
pieces remained. 
“The uprights varied in diameter from 34 to 6 in. and projected 
6 to 8 in. above the top of the wall. Some left molds in the clayey 
sand above the shell, indicating considerable enlargement around the 
top. . . The uprights, which were from 14 to 19 in. apart, were 
held together by twelve parallel circular cross-pieces, probably vines, 
each about 3/10 of an inch in diameter, surmounted by a circular 
stringer about 1 in. in diameter, over which the clay had been turned 
and rounded. At places marks in the clay plainly showed where the 
cross-pieces and the stringer had been attached to the uprights, prob- 
ably by vines. ... At irregular distances, usually but not always 
between consecutive uprights, on the top of the wall, were semi- 
circular depressions from 2 to 4 in. in diameter, which had undoubt- 
