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MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 



ground, was a single skeleton, lying at full length, head south and feet 

 north, the same direction as the logs, but so far decayed that the bones 

 crumbled to pieces when handled. There may have been a covering of 

 bark or brush, but nothing was observed to verify such conclusion. 

 Nothing else worthy of notice was discovered. 



Nos. 8 and 9 were explored, but were found to be nothing more than 

 heaps of yellow clay with a flrebed near the top of each. As they were 

 only about 40 feet in diameter and from 4 to 5 feet higii, they may haye 

 been house sites. 



No. 10, r» feet high and 4S feet in diameter, was also composed of yel- 

 low clay, except a limited area, a few inches thick, next the original 

 surface in the center. Here there was a sudden change to dark, loose 

 earth, covering a space about 4i feet in diameter and extending below 

 the original surface. 



This being removed, a circular pit was revealed a little over 3 feet 

 deep, rounded at the bottom and 4 i feet in circiiinference. This had 

 probably been tilled with some substance which had decayed. 



MOl'NDS UN THE CLICK KAHM. 



This small group, consisting of three mounds, is situated on the Tel- 

 lico river, 8 miles above its mouth, on tlie Click farm. Fig. 271 is a 



diagram showing their posi- 

 tions. The river i-uns south 

 about 70 degrees east from a 

 short distance above the 

 mounds to the mouth of a 

 small branch below, then 

 bends to about south 30 de- 

 grees east. There is no level 

 bottom land on either side ex- 

 cept a few acres on which 

 mound No. 3 stands. Nos. 1 

 and 2 on theniu'th side are on 

 the point of a high ridge. All 

 three are hemmed in on all 

 sides by high bluffs and ridges. 

 From No. 1 to No. 2 the dis- 

 tance is 170 feet; from No. 3 to the river bank, 290 feet. All are small, 

 Nos. 1 and 2 being about 3 feet high, and No. 3 nearly obliterated. 



Fig. 271. — Plat of mounds on the Click farm. Mounx^ 

 couuts', Tennessee. 



LOITIXIN COON'rV. 



Returning to the Little Tennesst'c, we continue our course down the 

 river. 



MOIJN'ns AHOl'T moi!<;anton. 



Next below the group represented in Fig. 270 are some mounds on 

 both sides.of the river, in the vicinityoftlie little village of Morgauton; 



