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foot below the surface, yielded arrowheads, celts, stone disks, pottery 

 disks, siuoothiiig' stones, fragments of clay pipes, long shell beads, and 

 small glass beads. Among the niins of another, 18 inches below the 

 surface, was a single skeleton with the head west; near it, on one side, 

 a pile of ashes, and on the other two large jjots, one over the other, and 

 in the lower one some animal bones, fragments of a turtle shell, mussel 

 shells, and shell beads ; here were also found two shell gorgets, four 

 shell pins, some shell and glass beads mixed together, charred berries, 

 shell spoons, charred seeds, lumps of blue coloring material, two celts, 

 part of a brass plate, a bone punch, etc. At another point the remains 

 presented the following series: After removing 10 inches of soil, a layer 

 of burnt day 5 inches thick was reached, then a clay hearth. This 

 heartlpwas on a thick layer of ashes. The burnt-clay layers in these 

 remains varied from 5 to 10 inches in thickness. In some they were 

 entirely wanting, ashes only l)eing present. 



CLARKE COUNTY. 



Four and a half miles east of Gaiuestown, on the north bank of the 

 Alabama river, in Sec. 2, T. 5 N., E. -1 E. of Stephen's Meridian, is 

 French's landing, the sujjposed site of old Fort Mauvilla. Not a ves- 

 tige of the old fort now remains and the mound that once stood here 

 has been carried into the river, and the so-called "burying ground" 

 has nearly all disappeared, a strip only about 20 feet wide remaining. 



At one place a foot below the surface in the l)reak of the bank, where 

 the wearing away is going on, were three skeletons in compact bundles, 

 which must have been buried after the tlesh had rotted oft" or been re- 

 moved from the bones. At another point, about 30 feet distant from 

 those mentioned, were two other similar deposits at the same depth 

 and arranged in the same way. Fragments of pottery occurred here 

 and there in the soil. 



BARBOIIK COUNTY. 



The following and some of the previous notices are given simply be- 

 cause they may possibly aid in locating someof the old Indian villages. 



At the St. Francis bend of the Chattahoochee river, 3 miles northeast 

 of Eufaula, is an elevated bfink of sandy soil on which it is said an old 

 Creek town was once located. Although partially washed away by the 

 river, there are sufticieut lemains of fire-beds, fragments of pottery, 

 human bones, and stone implements to confirm the tradition. 



MONT(J(;)MEKY COUNTY. 



Nine miles southwest of the city of Montgomery and situated on the 

 bank of the Alabama river is a group of five mounds. One of these, 

 8 feet high and 50 feet in diameter, was composed entirely of clay, in 

 which, at the depth of 2 feet, lay a single skeleton; no vestiges of 



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