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MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 



of pottery, stone scrapei's, aud fleshers were commingled with charcoal 

 and ashes. 



As all the mounds opened here presented this somewhat singular ' 

 feature, a very careful examination was made of this mortar-like sub- 

 stance. It was found that there was a difference between different por- 

 tions in the same mound, sufticiently marked to trace the separate 

 masses. Tliis would indicate that the mounds had been built by suc- 

 cessive deposits of mortar thus mixed with charred bones, etc., not in 

 strata, but in masses. 



All the facts seem to indicate that the builders of these mounds 

 bunied their dead, and that possibly each family mixed together the 

 charred remains, ashes, etc., forming one of these masses, 1 or 2 bush- 

 els iu amount, and then deposited it with others to form the central 

 part of the mound. 



The following is a list of the mounds of this group, showing the size 

 and form of each : 



