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thus obtiiiiied the desired form, layer No. .">, (i feet thiek, chiefly of dark 

 swaini)-inuek, was heaped over the original mound aud additiou. But 

 this layer was i)robably formed by additions made to it»fi'om time to 

 time, as it presents considerable variety in the ap])earance of the ma- 

 terial and also contains large masses of yellow sand, charcoal, ashes, 

 fragments of pottery, and charred bones, among which were found the 

 head of a deer and of an elk, with i)ortions of the charred horns still 

 attached. ]\Iany rude stone knives, scrapers, and jjerforators, a few 

 rude lance-heads and fragments of a better class of pottery were scat- 

 tered through it. Northwest of the c<MJter, in this layer, were some 

 charred timbers lying horizontally and one post (b) standing erect, re- 

 sembling the timber post fovrnd in No. 3. 



The external layer, -t feet thick, aud of a heterogeneous character, 

 was apparently formed of various sized masses of bluish clay, yellow 

 sand, and charcoal combined. 



]Mound No. 2 is much smaller than No. 1, not exceeding 100 feet in 

 diameter and 6 feet in height, and is flat on top. It consisted of four 

 layers, the first or upper stratum of sandy soil, 3 feet thick, mixed with 

 fragments of pottery; the second, about the same thickness, chiefly 

 yellow sand, with patches of blue clay, charcoal, ashes, fragments of 

 pottery, aud human bones mostly unbroken but soft as pulp; the third. 

 Cinches thick, was made up of blue clay and fragments of pottery; 

 and the fourth, 18 inches thick, of yellow sand, well filled with decayed 

 human bones, though some of them were plumj) and soft. Scattered 

 among them were charcoal and ashes. 



Mound No. 3, also flat on top, 80 feet in diameter and 4 feet high, was 

 without regular layers; but the base was found to be comiwsed chiefly 

 of yeUow sand, containing fire-beds, patches of bones, charcoal, ashes, 

 fragments of pottery, etc. 



Mound No. i resembled jN^o. 3 in form, size, composition, and contents. 

 Fragments of pottery, stone chips, lance-heads, scrapers, and perfor- 

 ators were scattered over the area of the inclosure, and at one point 

 there was an almost solid deposit of thein. 



Mound No. 5, standing outside the inclosure in a grove of large oak 

 timber and dense underbrush, is 40 feet in diameter and 8 feet high, 

 circular and symmetrical in form. An opening 6 feet in diameter and 3 

 feet deep had been made in the top so long ago that oak saplings have 

 since grown up in it. Further excavation revealed nothing but the 

 fact that it was composed of four parallel, horizoutaP strata, the first 

 or top one of yellow sand 1 foot thick, the second, 1 foot of dark muck, 

 the third, 4 feet of yellow sand, and the bottom, 1 foot of dark muck. 



'As a general rule throunhoiit this part of tlie Report "horizontal" when :ipplie(l 

 to strata is to be untlerstoocl in the strict sense of the term aud as iuiplyiug that the 

 stratiiui does not conform to the curve or contour ol the nioiind. 



