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and Pitman's landing. The si^'cial reasons for calling;- attention to it 

 here are beean.'je of tlie refereuee made by Mr. Evans to the supposed 

 brick discovered in it, and the peculiar form of the mound, shown in 

 Fig. 132, copied from the Times of April 0, 1881, which, as wjll be seen 

 elsewhere, is almost identical with one observed by (Jol. Norris .in 

 Phillips couuty, Arkansas (see Fig. 145). 



Flo. 131 Vi'ssel from J.ickson iiionud.s, iliswissippi couutflF. ArkanaaB. 



The dimensions given areas follows: Altitude of the first terrace 

 11 feet, width 120 feet, length 158 feet; altitude of second terrace 3 feet 

 7 inches, width 00 feet, length 03 feet; altitude of third terrace G feet, 

 width 63 feet, length 78 feet. 



Fig. 132. — The Sherman mound, Mi.ssi.s8ippi county, Arkansa.s. 



Digging into the top he found, near the surface, fragments of burned 

 clay, which increased in amount a little farther down, where they formed 

 a layer apparently over the upper terrace. These lumps of burned 

 clay, which he supjiosed to be brick, are evidently the fragments of 

 plaster from the walls of a dwelling, as they were, in some cases, marked 

 with the fluting elsewhere mentioned as occurring in the mounds of 

 Arkansas. 



