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firmer than the former. As the mound is used at the present time for a 

 burying place, permission was granted to sink only a single shaft in it, 

 which revealed nothing worthy ot notice. 



Mound No. 2, situated about 200 yards sonth of the large mound (No. 

 1), is circular in form, 2 feet high, and 25 feet in diameter. A thorougli 





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Fig. 154.— Mouud group iie.lr Oauirten, Arkanasa. 



excavation showed that the upper portion to the depth of 14 inches con- 

 sisted of sand similar to that of the surrounding surface, and tlie remain- 

 der to the depth of 9 incites, of rit'h black loam. In the latter were three 

 much decayed skeletons, the head of one toward the east, that of an- 

 other north, and that of the third west. No relics of any kind were 



