CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, MISSISSIPPI SOUND. 2997 
MOUNDS NEAR GRAVELINE Bayou, Jackson COUNTY. 
Beginning not far from the eastern side of Graveline bayou, back from the 
bluff that overlooks the sound at this place, are seven mounds of sand, all within 
three-quarters of a mile from the bayou, on property of Mr. J. I. Ford, of Scranton, 
Miss. АП these mounds are circular in outline with the exception of the largest, 
which is oblong in horizontal section, about 6 feet in height, with basal diameters 
of 81 feet north and south and 93 feet east and west, the sides almost corresponding 
to the cardinal points of the compass. The summit plateau of this oblong mound 
is 38 feet north and south and 50 feet east and west. Each of the seven mounds 
was carefully examined by us without discovery of human remains. А few bits of 
earthenware were met with, only one of which bears decoration. 
MOUNDS NEAR BELLE FONTAINE Point, JACKSON COUNTY. 
About two miles in a northwesterly direction from Belle Fontaine point are 
three mounds on property of Mr. 5. G. Ramsey, of Fort Bayou, Miss. One of these 
mounds, used as a modern place of burial, was not investigated by us, but as it re- 
sembles the other two, both small, which investigation showed to be domiciliary, 
it is doubtless of the same kind. 
Mounp ох Tonu ҺА САвАУҒА River, Harrison County, Miss. 
This mound, said to be on land the ownership of which has reverted to the 
State, is about six miles in a northerly direction from Biloxi, though much farther 
if reached by water. It stands about two hundred yards from the eastern bank of 
the Tchu la Cabawfa river, and about one-half mile above Hawley’s bluff, which is 
on the opposite side of the river. 
The mound, in pine woods, is of clay ; its outline rounded but irregular. Its 
basal diameters are 450 feet N. and S. and 290 feet E. and W. Its height is 11 
feet, though if measured from points whence material for its building has been taken, 
the elevation is somewhat greater. 
This mound, evidently domiciliary, was dug into by us to a reasonable extent, 
without material result, for the purpose of ascertaining whether superficial burials 
had been made. 
As our ill-success on Mississippi sound had been so uniform, and as the two 
agents sent by us in advance to locate mounds had failed to find any west of Biloxi, 
our investigation of the aboriginal remains of the sound was abandoned at that 
point, as we have said in our introduction to this report. 
38 JOURN. A. N. S. PHILA., VOL. XIII. 
