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mound proper. In fact, in comparison with the yield of the mound proper, nothing 
of marked interest came from the sloping area which surrounded it, 
The mound itself, as we have said, differed in composition from the sloping 
ground in that the mound contained much less shell and to a large extent was made 
up of clear sand. This sand continued to the very base of the mound on the gen- 
eral level of the surrounding surface, so that it seems clear that the mound was 
built first, and later surrounded, as to its lower part, by the sloping ground, 
We know that when the mound proper was built a better class of objects was 
placed with the dead. Either the possessions of those living at that earlier period 
were of a higher grade than those of the persons who later built the cemetery 
around the mound, or else the makers of the mound proper were endowed with a 
greater spirit of liberality than were those who came later. 
Before leaving Crystal River, six trial-holes, some 4 feet by 4 feet, some 4 feet 
by 5 feet, were made іп the southern part of the embankment marked СС on the 
plan. Two skeletons were found, and one small pendant of limestone was met 
with in sand thrown out from one of the excavations. 
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