264 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, LOWER TOMBIGBEE RIVER. 
IIuman remains, encountered at the very margin, were found in thirty places, 
at a depth of from 1 foot to nearly 3 feet. Тһе burials, badly decayed, resembled 
those found in the mound in Kimbell’s Field, lone skulls and mere fragments of 
long-bones constituting separate interments. In one case decay had gone so far that 
only a few teeth were present. 
With a skull and a bit of long-bone was a mass of galena, about 1.5 inches by 
l inch by .75 inch. Another mass, about double that size, lay with an isolated 
skull. Galena, lead sulphide, assumes a new importance in the mounds since we 
know from our investigations at Moundville on the Black Warrior river that the 
carbonate of lead which forms on the lead sulphide, probably was used as a paint. 
A few bits of inferior pottery, a flake or two of chert, several flakes and masses 
and broken arrowheads, of quartzite lay in the mound apart from human remains. 
At some distance from the center, sand slightly darker than that of the mound, 
and containing scattered fragments of human bone, was noticed. This discolored 
sand suggested the presence of a pit, but as it seemed to merge more or less with 
the sand around it, definite limits could not be determined. No base-line was met 
with in this mound, hence it is impossible to say whether or not a pit found beneath 
the sand we have described was connected with it or not. Had there been a base- 
line and that line had been cut through, it would have been evident that the black 
sand above and the pit below formed parts of the same excavation. In the pit, 5 
feet 3 inches from the surface of the mound, was a deposit of sand, 5 feet in length, 
3.5 feet in breadth, and 1.5 feet deep, deeply blackened by organic matter. In it 
were bits of pottery having no relation one to another—not a vessel broken and 
thrown in. Fora certain distance above this dark deposit were scattered, small bits 
of charcoal. 
DWELLING SITE AT THORNTON'S UPPER LANDING, CLARKE COUNTY. 
Near this landing, which is 153 miles by water from Mobile, on property of Mr. 
Е. L. Long, of Mobile, and Mr. J. Р. Armistead, of Coffeeville, Alabama, are small 
shell deposits consisting mainly of two vivipara, namely, Campaloma ponderosum 
and 7и/о юта magnifica, the latter peculiar to the Alabama river system, and 
several Unionide, including Quadrula cornuta and О. pernodosa. 
The neighboring fields are strewn with the usual debris of dwelling-sites. We 
gathered a heart-shaped mass of sandstone, pitted on each side, and another, more 
roughly made, having five pits. 
MOUND NEAR Powe’s LANDING, CuocrAw COUNTY. 
This mound, through which a road had been dug, was on property of Mr. H. 
A. Powe, of Bladen Springs, Alabama, about one-quarter mile below the landing, 
on the river bank. The mound originally had been about 5 feet high and about 48 
feet across the base. The remnants of this mourd were dug into to a considerable 
extent by us without discovery of human bones or artifacts. 
