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MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 



Fig. I'S'i shows the positious of the following articles found iu it. 

 Nos. 1 and 2, pots at the depth of 9 inches, or immediately under the 

 bed of burned day; 3, clay disk, depth, fl inches; 4, a folded skeleton, 

 head north, depth, 1 foot, with a pot on each side of it; 5, a pot, depth, 



2 feet; 0, a soft skeleton and 

 a pot, depth. 2 feet; 7, a 

 broken bowl at the depth of 

 2i feet; S, a bowl at a depth 

 of 2 feet; 9, 10, 11, three 

 skeletons, heads iu different 

 directions, at the depth of 2 

 feet; 12, a clay pipe immedi- 

 ately under the top layer of 

 burned clay. 



-Most of the pottery in this 

 mound was very soft, hence 

 it was only with great care 

 that the vessels could be 

 taken out whole. The bones 

 were so wet and soft that 

 they went to pieces when 

 handled. Several small, 

 hardwood ti-ees. such as hackberry, hickory', jiecan and walnut, grew 

 on the mound, but none exceeded <i or 8 inches in diameter. Soft mus- 

 sel shells, chunks of burned clay, charcoal, burned stones, ashes and 

 fragments of charred cane were found at various depths. 



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This yronp is situated in T. 11 N., R. fi E., on the east bank of Little 

 river, about 3 miles above its Junction with the St, P^rancis. 



The bottom land on which the mounds stand, although under culti- 

 vation, is low and subject to overflow. The plan of the group is given 

 in Fig. 121. 



Fragments of pottery, broken stone implements, mussel shells, stone 

 chips, broken bones, and chunks of bitrned clay are scattered over a 

 portion of the ground. A clay pipe was the only whole article that re- 

 warded a careful search of the surface. 



Owing to continued rains and abundance of water but two mounds 

 of the above group were examined and very little of interest found in 

 them. 



The.lollowing list gives the respet-tive sizes and forms of the mounds 

 of this group : 



No. 1. Seventy-live feet long north and south, 05 feet wide, and 2 

 feet high.* 



No. 2. Ninety feet long north and south an 40 feet east and west. 



No. 3. Thirty feet in diameter and 2 feet high. 



