LOWER CHATTAHOOCHEE AND LOWER FLINT RIVERS. 447 
MOUND NEAR CoLoMOKEE CREEK, CLAY County, Ga. 
This mound, on the river bank, about 150 yards above Colomokee creek, had 
been greatly spread by cultivation. Its height is about 4 feet; its diameter, about 
80 feet. The mound, which had been courteously placed at our disposal by its 
owner, Mr. J. C. Neves, of Fort Gaines, Ga., had many trial-holes dug into it by 
us, showing it to be mainly of red clay, and apparently a former dwelling site. 
MOUND ат Fort GAINES, GA. 
This mound, about 3.5 feet high and 90 feet across its circular base, is in the 
modern cemetery belonging to the town of Fort Gaines. Permission to dig it was 
granted us in a former season by Mr, J. Eugene Peterson, Acting Mayor of Fort 
Gaines, but the river at that time not being suitable for our steamer, our plans did 
not materialize. At the time of our visit, the permission given by Мг, Peterson 
was renewed by Mr. W. A. McAllister, Mayor of Fort Gaines, and by Mr. J. Е. 
Paullin, President of the Cemetery Committee, all of whom expressed their will- 
ingness to permit the removal of a summer-house situated on the mound, should 
we find it necessary to do so. 
A number of trial-holes, however, in many parts of the mound, showed it to 
be domiciliary in character. 
MOUNDS NEAR SrARK'S CLAY LANDING, CLAY County, Ga. (2). 
About one mile in an easterly direction from Stark's Clay Landing, in a cot- 
ton-field forming part of the plantation of Dr. J. T. Mandeville, of Fort Gaines, is 
a conical mound of sandy clay, the symmetry of which has been but little impaired 
by the spiral furrows left by cultivation. Rising from the level field, the mound, 
126 feet in basal diameter and 18 feet in height, is a conspicuous object. 
Previous to our visit a trench 12 feet wide, beginning part way up on the 
western side of the mound, had been carried in 25 feet, where it broadened into an 
oblong excavation 18 feet long by 15 feet wide. As much of the material had 
been thrown back by the diggers, the original depth of the trench could not be 
determined, but it must have been considerable. 
Many trial-holes made by us, and considerable work in the former excavation, 
yielded neither bone nor artifact. No history was forthcoming as to any discovery 
made by former diggers. Presumably the mound was made for purposes other than 
that of burial. | 
A short quarter of a mile іп a southeasterly direction from the mound just 
described is another, evidently domiciliary. This mound, on a slope, varies as to 
height. Probably 9.5 feet, the measurement as taken from the south, would be a 
fair average. The length of base is 230 feet, almost east and west; the width is 
110 feet. The summit plateau is 146 feet by 74 feet. A number of trial-holes 
produced no material result. 
