568 CERTAIN MOUNDS OF ARKANSAS AND OF MISSISSIPPI. 
MOUNDS AND SITES INVESTIGATED ON THE YAZOO RIVER. 
Mounds at King’s Crossing, Warren County (3). 
Dwelling-site below Haynes’ Bluff Landing, Warren County. 
Mounds near Haynes’ Bluff Landing, Warren County (3). 
Mounds near Leist Landing, Issaquena County (2). 
Mounds near O’Neill’s Landing, Yazoo County (2). 
Mound near Stella Landing, Yazoo County. 
Mound near Clark’s Ferry, Yazoo County. 
Dwelling-site near Monterey Landing, Yazoo County. 
Mound at Caruthers’ Landing, Yazoo County. 
Dwelling-site at Koalunsa Landing, Yazoo County. 
Mound near Parker’s Bayou, Holmes County. 
Mounds at the Fort Place, Yazoo County (5). 
Mound near entrance of Tchula Lake, Holmes County. 
Mound on Tchula Lake, Holmes County. 
Mounds at the Peaster Place, Holmes County (4). 
Mound at Belzona, Washington County. 
Mound above Belzona, Holmes County. 
Mound near Welsh Camp Landing, Holmes County. 
Mound near entrance of Wasp Lake, Washington County. 
Mounds near Wasp Lake, Washington County (6). 
Mounds near Silent Shade Landing, Holmes County (2). 
Mounds near Carey Middleton Gin Landing, Holmes County (2). 
Mounds near head of Honey Island, Holmes County (2). 
Mound near mouth of Yalobusha river, Leflore County. 
Mounds on the Lucas Plantation, Leflore County (3). 
Mound at Racetrack Landing, Leflore County. 
MOUNDS Ат KING’s CROSSING, WARREN COUNTY. 
2 
At King’s Crossing, about four miles in а northerly direction from Vicksburg, 
in full view from the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad, are three mounds, 
and what may be parts of other mounds. 
Mound A, on property belonging to Miss M. C. Collier, resident on the place, 
was used as a fortification by the Confederates during the siege of Vicksburg, and 
cannon-balls may still be seen partly imbedded in its clay. 
Owing to the historical associations of the mound, the owner was unwilling 
that digging should alter its present shape; and in point of fact, investigation 
seemed almost unnecessary, inasmuch as the mound evidently belongs to the domi- 
ciliary class so abundant throughout southern United States. 
At the time of our visit the mound was about 25 feet in height and showed 
much irregularity in shape, though doubtless formerly it had been a symmetrical 
oblong. Its basal measurements N. and S. and E. and W. were respectively 157 
