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dirt. Seveu feet northeast of the center was a similar but smaller hole. 

 The gray layer at the bottom was undisturbed over both these spots, 

 showing that the mound was built after this part of the field had been 

 occupied. 



The swamp mud ran out at 30 feet north and northeast of the center. 

 Twenty-two feet from the center, toward the north, a deposit of gray 

 clay, varying from a few inches to 4 feet in thickness, began and reached 

 nearly to the edge of the mound. The dumped dirt endetl at 60 feet 

 from the center. 



The fleld being in cultivation, none of the other mounds could be 

 opened, except one, and there was nothing about that to indicate that 

 it would repay investigation. 



If the large mound be considered a place of residence, the most prob- 

 able theory, it is not plain what use was made of the smaller ones. It 

 is evident that those within the inclosure, with the exception of the 

 first one opened, were not intended or used for burial i)urposes. 



EXPLANATORY NOTES. 



Tlie courses and distances of the line of wall, as traced and located 

 by the old settlers, are as follows, coiumeucing at station 1, the north- 

 west corner: 



The smaller mounds were located by bearings from the center of the 

 fargc mound, but the distances to all except 11 and 12 were measured 

 from the south corner; for 11 and 12 the measurements were from the 

 north corner. Mounds 5 and 13 are not shown on the plat. 



