CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, LOWER TOMBIGBEE RIVER. 
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MOUND NEAR ХовіЕв GIN, CLARKE COUNTY. 
In a cultivated field, the property of the Mobile Lumber Company, of Mobile, 
was a mound about one-quarter mile above the gin, near the river's bank. This 
mound, which, evidently, had long been under cultivation, was much spread by the 
plough and probably reduced in height at the same time. It resembled an irregular 
ridge 85 feet long. At the narrower end it was 36 feet across. At 55 feet from 
the latter end it was 49 feet across, its maximum width, and there attained its 
greatest height, 4 feet 3 inches. 
In the surrounding field, the surface of which had been disturbed by the plough 
and by wash of water in a recent flood, were flakes and small masses, of quartzite, 
in all directions, but, curiously enough, no fragment of pottery was noticed, although 
careful search was made. 
This mound, which was completely leveled by us, made of clay having a 
certain admixture of sand, seemingly had not been dug into before our visit, except 
to place four posts for a small shed for cattle. Near the margin were a few frag- 
ments of pottery, bearing a small check-stamp. Farther in were several bits of 
ordinary ware, undecorated, and one sherd bearing a series of parallel, incised lines, 
In the marginal parts of the mound, perhaps surface deposits ploughed under, were 
a number of bits of quartzite and several broken arrowheads; four rough cutting 
implements; six arrowheads, possibly knives, all quartzite. One arrowhead was 
rather neatly made, being serrated and having one side flat, the other convex. 
Under the shed, where probably the material from the post-holes had been thrown, 
was a small “ celt” and a neatly-made gouge of volcanic stone, with a sharp edge 
concave оп one side. With a lone skull was a neatly-made “сей” of volcanic 
stone, 7 inches long. 
No human remains were met with until the outside 10 feet of the mound had 
been dug away, and burials were infrequent until more central parts of the mound 
had been reached. There were present, all in the last stage of decay, seventeen 
burials, from 6 inches to 38 inches below the surface, as follows : 
Lone skulls—6. 
Small bunches without skulls—o. 
Small bunches with skulls—5. 
A single femur—l. 
With one burial was a quantity of sandy clay colored with red pigment; and 
in another place, where no burial was found, the clay was reddened where possibly 
a burial had disappeared through decay. 
MOUND BELOW BASHI CREEK, CLARKE COUNTY. 
About one mile below the mouth of Bashi creek is a cultivated field belonging 
to the Mobile Lumber Company, of Mobile. About one hundred yards from the 
river, in this field, is a mound of irregular basal outline, apparently much spread by 
cultivation and at the same time reduced in height. On the surface of the mound 
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