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MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 



Citico creek. This is the upper and outlying portion of the group num 

 bered 4 in PI. xxv. A plat of the entire group is given in Fig. 247, 

 which includes the McSpaddin mounds just below the creek. To show 

 the relation of the two groups and their immediate surroundings it may 

 be stated that this group consists of three mounds standing on the level 

 top of a spur which is about l.W feet higher than the bottom lands. 





Fig. 247. — riat of Latimorc iiud McSpaddin muunds (Citico group), Monroe county, Tennessee. 



The courses and distances between different points are as follows 

 (Fig. 247) : 



From a? the junction of Citico creek with the river, to h, at the foot of the spur, 

 S. 10° E., 1,476 feet. 

 From 6 to mound No. 1, S. 38° W., 310 feet. 

 From mound No. 1 to mound No. 2, S. 45° \V., 143 feet. 

 From mound No. 2 to mound No. 3, N. 10° W., 108 feet. 

 From 6 directly to the river bank, 310 feet. 

 Measurements between the mound.'! are in .ill oases from center to center. 



Fig. 248.— Vertical section, mound >.'o. 1, Latimore group. 



Mound No. 1 was slightly oval in form, 70 feet in diameter and a 

 little over 8 feet high. A thorough exploration was made, bringing to 

 light a confused heap of human bones near the center, at a depth of 

 from 2 to 3 feet. In this heap, Avhich was as compact as it could well 

 be of such material, were eleven skulls, indicating that at least 11 

 skeletons (for the flesh must have been off when deposited) had been 



