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mound, previous to our visit, leaving, however, the eastern part intact. What was 
left of the mound was leveled by us. 
Human remains found were confined to a small fragment of a skull. 
Almost at the eastern margin, and extending to the northeast, began the usual 
ceremonial deposit of earthenware, put in for the dead in common, such as we have 
fully described in our reports on the mounds of the northwestern Florida coast and 
of the Apalachicola river. This particular deposit presented no new features. It 
began with sherds and parts of vessels and continued inward a number of feet, the 
latter part of the deposit being made up of groups of two or three vessels placed 
together, at short distances apart. Owing to the nature of the mound, which was 
of clay, no vessel was recovered entire, though a number were represented by a 
full complement of parts. There was 
little variety of form, pots and bowls 
being met with exclusively. The ware 
is inferior. Gritty tempering is absent. 
Decoration, when present, consists of 
the small check-stamp ; the complicated 
stamp, faintly impressed; very rude 
incised line decoration in two instances 
in sherds; in one case an incised deco- 
ration of wavy lines and punctate 
markings as shown in Fig. 1. The rim 
of this vessel, which has been slightly 
restored in places, is not even, but rises 
and is depressed in the manner of the 
decoration beneath. 
All vessels from this mound are 
small or of medium size, and all, in- ВЫ sr agg мсни gil 
cluding those represented by fragments, 
so far as could be determined, had undergone the mortuary perforation of the base 
so well known in Florida and in parts of Georgia and of Alabama, which was sup- 
posed to “kill” the pot and thus free its soul to accompany the souls of those for 
whom the mound was built. 
Mounp BELOW HARES LANDING, Decatur County, GA. 
This mound, in high swamp, about a mile and a half ina southeasterly direc- 
tion from Hare’s Landing, on property of the Stuart Lumber Company, of Brinson, 
Ga., had a height of 5 feet, a basal diameter of 48 feet. 
The mound, seemingly intact, symmetrical, circular as to its base, was com- 
posed of sand in the outer parts and of sand with a considerable admixture of clay 
farther in. With the exception of a comparatively small portion of the outer 
western part, it was completely leveled by us. 
Human bones, so badly decayed that at times minute fragments alone remained, 
were found in forty-three places, from 2 feet below the surface down to the base, 
