THOMAS.] 



TENNESSEE. 



377 



No. 81, (ipjith S feet, face up. AVitb it 2 perfect ornainonted pots, 2 .shell jiin.s, :i lot 



of shell beads, and a lump of red i>aiut. 

 No. 89, depth 4i foet, face up. Skeleton of a child. With it 1 pot, 1 engraved sliell 



gorget, 13 shell pins, 1 plain shell gorget, and 846 shell heads. 

 No. 90, depth 2i feet, face up. With it the hone needle .shown in Fig. 253. 



Fig. 2.'i3.— Bono iicimUi', Citico mnuinl. 



Mound No. 8- -Tliis was almost perfectly circular, 55 feet in diame- 

 ter, and between 8 and 9 feet high. It was comi)osed entirely of red 

 clay, and contained nothing' bnt two skeletons, which lay at full length, 

 side by side, on the original soil at the center of the mound. 



The two clusters just described -'the Latimc^re and McSpaddiu 

 mounds — form the group marked 4 on PI. xxv, and correspond in loca- 

 tion with the Cherokee town Settacoo of Tiuiberlake's map (PI. xxvi). 



THE li.VCoN' AN1> M'GEE MOIND.S. 



About 4 miles below the group last described, and a short di.staiice 

 from tlie little town 

 of Mountainville, are 

 two mounds; one on 

 the north side of the 

 river, on the land of 

 J. L. Bacon, the other 

 on the south side, 

 nearly • opposite, on 

 the land of Mrs. Ann 

 McGee. These be- 

 long to the group 

 marked 5 on PI. xxv. 

 A i>lat of the area on 

 which they are sit- 

 uated is given in Fig. 

 254. As will be seen 

 from this, the narrow 

 valley is bounded on 

 both sides, at this 

 point, by liigh ridges. 

 The courses and dis- 

 tances between tbe points indicated on the plat are as follows: 



From a. on the north bank of the river, where the bluff comes to the stream, to h, 

 also on the north bank. S. 40° W. 840 feet. 

 From h to mound No. 1, N. 15° W. 428 feet. 



From 6 to c, a point on the north bank of the river, S. 82° W. 700 feet. 

 From to d, a point on the south bank, due south about 3.^0 feet. 

 From (J to mound No. 2 on the McGee farm, S. 12° W. 685 feet. 



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Fig. 254. — Plat of the Bacon and MeGee mounds, Blount and Monroe 

 countifs, Tennessee. 



