A. Bigelow on Mounds on the Tensaw River. 189 
whole arrangement is so regular and nearly rectangular, as to in- 
duce one to suppose it laid out by a compass tI think it to 
have been done by the eye, according to the position of the 
ground and river. Its position as respects the compass on the 
north side is E, by N. E., but it is parallel with the river and 
general direction of the sides of the field.. The entrance looks 
directly upon the large mound and fronts the whole arrangement. 
4A swamp covered with forests surrounds the whole except the 
entrance from the river. y 
2.—PLAN OF THE MOUNDS AND FIELD. 
“HI opiog 
s 
ound A, is 803 feet in cirenit; 1995 feet from the “ 
Creek ; 1200 feet from the tree G; 106 feet from the = _2i. 
: Mounds ¢, cl, &c.; 116 feet from B B'. 
For a more particular description the reader is referred to fig. 2. 
Bottle Creek. is represented on the east side; L is a part of the 
he usually attending an Indian interment. The beads are 
lobular, three-quarters of an inch in diameter, having a large hole 
tthe string ; they are of elass, translucent, and of a bluish color. 
cl, 2, and e3, form ‘the rtion of a rectangle outside of the 
mounds: ¢3, and the one next to it are much used now for 
Stacking hay to prevent injury by the floods; the others are not 
Wite so high. On cl and c2 many images, beads, and pieces of 
Bas have been found, having been turned up by the plough. 
Pon c2 T-found an old fire-heatth a short distance below the 
Strface, and beside it the bones of various animals now existing 
there,” ‘Those of the alligator were most abundant. B B’ is the 
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