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MOUND EXPLOKATIONS. 



No. 1. Circular in outline, rounded on top, 60 feet in diameter at the 

 base and 3 feet high. Made of black sandj^ loam. 



No. 2. An oblong, flat-topped mound; length, 60 feet; width, 35 feet, 

 and height, 3 feet. As it was occupied in early times by the house of 

 a Frenchman, and looks as though it had been plowed or graded down, 



the present form is 

 probably not the ori- 

 ginal one. 



No. 4. Similar in 

 size and form to No. 

 1 ; 5 feet high. A par- 

 tial examination of 

 this mound had pre- 

 viously been made, 

 when some specimens 

 were found, but no 

 particulars could be 

 learned in regard to 

 them. It consisted of 

 three layers; first, a 

 top layer, 2i ft. thick, 

 of black sandy loam; 

 next a thin stratum 

 of silver sand, and a 

 bottom layer, 2 feet 

 thick, of dark muck, 

 slightly mixed with 

 sandy loam. The re- 

 examination revealed 

 nothing save a few 

 fresh-water shells. 



No. 5. Conical, 40 

 feet in diameter and 

 3i feet higli, had pre- 

 viously been opened 

 by a trench through 

 it from north to south. 

 A further examina- 

 tion brought to light 

 some badly decayed human bones, which had been partially disturbed 

 by the previous explorers, but enough remained in position to show 

 that the bodies, or skeletons, had been folded when buried. These lay 

 on the gravelly substratum of the ridge; hence it is presumed that 

 the thin surface soil had been removed before burial. Nothing more, 

 save a few decayed shells scattered here and there through the mound, 

 was observed. 



