tenne.ssj:e. 



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could be saved. The other side of the mound liad nothing in it I'xcc^irt 

 a flue stone pipe somewliat similar to that shown in Fig. 233, wliii-h was 

 ou the bed of coals some 10 or 12 feet from the nearest skeleton. ]^ear 

 the head of one of the skeletons wei-e some beautiful arrow-lieads, shell 

 beads, a jiolished celt, and two perforated stones. 



ANCIKNT (iKAX KS NKAI! KINGSPOHT. 



A plat showing the locality of these and some otiier works noticed is 

 given in Fig. 234. In this d and c are five graves covered with piles of 



Flo. 



-I'hui 111" liuri;ils in inoiiml, SiiUiv:iii loiintv, Ti'iinessi-t 



stone; c, the site of old Fort Patrick Henry, built in 177S; aty", on the 

 op])osite side of the river, is an ancient graveyard, some of the graves 

 being covered with stones, others with earth; at a is a waste pit In 

 Cherokee Island, full of broken pottery, bones, etc. The graves at c 

 are on the old Bird well farm, about a mile above the head of Long Island. 

 They are in the top and near the break of a high bluff which here over- 

 looks the river. The pile on each was oval in outline, measuring about 

 14: feet in length, 9 feet iu wiilth, and 18 inches high, composed of liroken 

 limestone. The pit of one, which for convenience is designated No. 1, 

 appears to have been nearly equal in extent to the pile of stones over 

 it and about 2i feet in depth. A longitudinal section is shown in 

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