THOMAS.] MOUNDS IN LAWRENCE COUNTY. 1G3 



those oil tlie hill 3 miles. It is possible, thereloie, that the people who 

 lived at the Liun farm and bailt the mounds and other works there 

 buried their dead at one or more of those places. 



LAWRENCE COUNTY. 



It was ascertained by the Bureau agent that some of the supposed 

 mounds on the bluff or ridge opposite Viiicennes, in which skeletons 

 have been found are natural hillocks but used as burying grounds by 

 the aborigines. 



brown's mill MOrXDS. 



These are on Embarrass river 6 miles west of Vincennes, on the farm 

 of Dr. F. E. Austin. There are but two in the group, one 4 and the 

 other 6 feet high. Excavations to the base revealed nothing but sand, 

 though .stone implements and fragments of pottery have been plowed 

 up here, some of which were obtained. 



MOUNDS NEAK RUSSELLVILLE. 



These are situated near the bank of the Wabasli-abont a mile south- 

 ea.st of the town on the farm of Mr. William Wise. One had been 

 opened a short time before the Bureau investigation and a skeleton 

 found at the depth of 2 feet; a flat rock was lying over it, but no 

 relics of any kind with it. Two others formerly stood near it, but have 

 been removed. According to local information several skeletons were 

 found at the bottom and with them two iron tomahawks, some pipes, 

 some shells and glass beads, and parts of three pairs of beaded buck- 

 skin moccasins. 



Another mound on the Lawrenceville road, about 3 miles .southeast 

 of Eussellville, had also been opened and several skeletons found about 

 2 feet below the surface, with heads outward and feet toward the center. 

 No articles of any kind were with them. 



Near the town of Eussellville formerly stood several mounds, but 

 they were excavated in repairing the road. In these were found arrow- 

 heads, a silver breast ornament, two iron tcmiahawks, a crescent shaped 

 earring, two stone turtle'!, two copper kettles, a brass ring, and several 

 skeletons, all at the bottom of the mound. 



MISSOURI. 

 CLAEK COUNTY. 



Between Fox river and Sugar creek a sharp dividing ridge, about 

 100 feet high, extends for a distance of nearly 2 miles, in a northwest- 

 erly direction, fioni where these streams debouch to the open bottoms 

 of the Mississippi. 



At an abrupt turn to the east, near the middle, there is a bold point 

 much higher, capped by an ancient mound wliicli is surmounted by a 



