-iioMAs.) TENNESSEE. 403 



Fine pot, steatite pipe, shell oruameuts, stouc ax, day (iniaiiiciits, skull, aii<l two 

 'liscdidal stones, from skeleton No. .53. 



Two (lisroidal stones, eelt, two steatite pipes, and a pot, from skeleton No.lil. 



Two s))earheads >aud two large I)ea(ls, from skeleton No. (B. 



Flint knife, iron chisel, large cliseoidal stone and skull, from skeleton No. 63. 



Tbt! terrace coiiueeted with this mound, and already described, was 

 oaly jtartially explored, further work being i)revciited by hi{;h water. 

 In a single trench, 24 feet long and 10 feet wide, cut lengthwise in the 

 center to the original surface, skeletons were discovered. The first 

 was that of a eliild at a depth of 18 inches; the bones were badly 

 decayed and unai'conii)anied by relics of any kind. The other S, all 

 adults, were I'ound at the depth of 7 feet, chise to the bottom, and in a 

 much better statu of preservation than that of the child. With them 

 were three whole jiots and a few broken beads. 





The island was overflowed in 1SS7, the year the exploration was 

 niiwle, to iir depth of 10 or 12 feet, the highest water, with one exce])tion, 

 ever known here. 



Mounds 13 and 14, in the bottom between the two creeks opp((site 

 the mouth of the Little Tennessee, were explored and both found 

 to be composed throughout of red clay. They were of the ordinary 

 conical form, the former .54 feet in diameter and 4 feet high, the latter 

 46 feet in diameter and 2 feet high. In the center of the former, at the 

 base, was a single skeleton resting on a circular layer of ashe."-, about 4 

 feet in diameter and 2 inches thick, which had been spread on the orig- 

 inal surface of the ground. Nothing was foitiid in No. 14. 



By reference to the plat (Fig. 276) it will be seen that there are uine 

 mounds (Nos. 1 to 9) on the point between the Holstou and the Little 

 Tennes.see. They are situated on a low ridge in groups of three. 



No. 4, 42 feet in diameter, 3i feet high, was excavated, and, like all 

 the upland mounds in this sectiou, consisted wholly of red clay. It 

 contained neither skeleton nor relic. 



No. 1, measuring 45 feet in diameter and 2 feet high, is situated on 



