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MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 



teeii skeletons, as sliowu in the diagiaiu (Fig. 277). The top layer, 

 about IS inches thick, consisted of dark sandy soil, scattered through 

 which were numerous fragments of pottery, shells, tlint chips, and bits 

 of charcoal. Next below this was a layer, about 4 inches thick, of yel- 

 low clay, thoroughly burnt and very hard. This conformed to the 

 curvature of the mound, extending all around to the base, and entirely 

 covering the nucleus which formed the original mound. Below this, 

 and forming the uucleus, was a layer of dark, sandy soil, similar to 

 the outer stratum, which extended nearly to the base and rested on a 

 horizontal layer of burned clay, which covered the original surface of 

 the ground to a depth of 4 or 5 inches. All the skeletons were found 

 resting horizontally on, or a few inches above, this bottom layer of 



burnt clay or cement: 



No. 1, with the head 

 north; about the neck 

 were several l)lue glass 

 beads. 



Nos. 2 and i!, lying side 

 by side, with heads west. 

 Nos. 4 and 5, lying side 

 by side, with heads east 

 and feet close to the feet 

 of Nos. 2 and 3. 



No. 6, the skeleton of 

 a child, lying apart from 

 the others, with head 

 south; about the neck 

 were a number of beads, 

 and around the arm 

 bones two iron bracelets. 

 Nos. 7, 8, 9, and 10 



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IMan of burials in mmui<l No. 1, Lenoir group. 



were lying side by side, 

 touching one another, with heads to the west; with these were some 

 sheets of mica and a stone knife. 



No. 11 was the skeleton of a child, lying apart from the others, head 

 southwest; there were no ornaments with it. 



Nos. 12, 13, and 14 were lying side by side, with heads southwest. 



Mound No. 2, like No. 1, is on the northein end of the island, but it 

 differs in one very important respect from any other mound so far ob- 

 served in this region. It has annexed to it a broad and extended ter- 

 race of the form shown in Fig. 278, A being the mound proper and B 

 the annex or terrace. It is termed "annex," because it is evident that 

 the mound was first completed and the terrace added afterwards, and 

 not built up with and as a part of the mouud. 



The mound is circular, 108 feet in diameter, flat on top, and nearly 

 11 feet high. The terrace, which is level on top and 8 feet high, widens 



