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various levels of occupancy, as was shown to have occurred in Mound C. But even 
if such were the case, and to determine this would be a stupendous work, the 
character of the mounds would remain the same. 
MOUND IN MOUNDVILLE, HALE COUNTY. 
In the town of Moundville, in front of the dwelling of Mr. J. A. Elliott, in 
pine woods, is a much-spread, circular mound of sand, about 3 feet in height. 
Thirteen trial-holes produced no positive result. 
Mounp NEAR McCOWIN’S BLUFF, TUSCALOOSA COUNTY. 
This mound, about 9 feet in height, in sight from the river, has been oblong, 
but at present its corners and sides have been greatly rounded by cultivation. We 
were unable to obtain permission to investigate this mound ; however, a small exca- 
vation, made by us in the central part of the plateau, showed the mound, at that 
place, to be of hard clay and very unlike domiciliary mounds in which burials have 
been made. 
MOUND NEAR В. Н. Foster LANDING, TUSCALOOSA COUNTY. 
At this landing is a plantation, belonging to Miss Florence H. Foster, of Sylvan, 
Alabama, on which is a mound almost obliterated by cultivation. That which ге- 
mains was dug into at a number of places by us, but no sign of human bones or of 
artifacts was encountered. 
Parts of surrounding fields show traces of aboriginal occupancy. Though many 
holes were dug by us to undisturbed soil, but one burial pit was revealed. Іп this 
grave-pit were two skeletons at full length lying on their backs, one 2 feet below 
the surface, the other 5 feet. Хо artifacts were with them. 
MOUND NEAR JONES’ Ferry LANDING, TUSCALOOSA County. 
This mound, about one mile in a northerly direction from the landing, in a cul- 
tivated field not far from the water, had been largely ploughed away. Fragments 
of pottery and a human tooth lay on the surface. As the field from which the 
mound rises is subject to overflow and consequent wash, no excavation was permitted. 
MOUND NEAR HILL'S GIN LANDING, TUSCALOOSA COUNTY. 
This mound, in a northerly direction from the landing, near the river, on 
property of Dr. T. M. Leatherwood, of Tuscaloosa, is 6 feet 8 inches high. Its 
length east and west is 133 feet; its breadth north and south is 100 feet. Its 
summit plateau is 91 feet by 69 feet in corresponding directions. Thirteen trial- 
holes yielded neither human bone nor artifact. 
