570 CERTAIN MOUNDS OF ARKANSAS AND OF MISSISSIPPI. 
The mound is practically square, the base being about 185 feet in each direc- 
tion. The summit plateau is 75 feet square. 
Fourteen trial-holes were put down, resulting in the discovery of a few frag- 
ments of bones of lower animals, mostly of the deer, and a bone which Prof. F. A. 
Lucas kindly has identified as being part of a tibia of a wild turkey. There were 
also some bits of earthenware, shell-tempered as a rule, a few having a fine black 
polish on each side. 
In the neighborhood of this mound are tbree elevations, one of which we 
believe to be a knoll that has served as a dwelling-site; the other two, remnants 
of mounds. 
In one of these, just below the surface, was a skeleton having small glass 
beads at the neck. 
MOUNDS NEAR LEIST LANDING, ISSAQUENA COUNTY. 
On the property of Mr. Samuel Leist, living on the place, are two mounds; 
an elevation in a field, probably a dwelling-site; and the remnant of a low mound, 
on which stands a house. 
One of the mounds which, like so many in this region, serves as a refuge 
for cattle in flood-time, is about 400 yards in a westerly direction from Leist 
Landing. 
Its height, taken from the eastern side, is 29 feet 4 inches. 
Its basal outline 1s circular in а general way, but somewhat irregular owing to 
cultivation of the field in which it stands and to wash of water in times of overflow 
of the Yazoo. Тһе sides of the mound also have been impaired through wash of 
rain and trampling of cattle in all probability, as the highest floods remembered 
have covered only the lower ten feet of the mound. 
The diameter of the mound is about 174 feet. "There is but little summit 
plateau. 
Eleven trial-holes were put down in the upper part of the mound, the material 
encountered being hard loam.’ "These trial-holes were carefully filled by us accord- 
ing to our invariable custom. 
With the exception of three recent burials in coffins, nothing was encountered 
by us in this mound. 
On the bank of the Little Sunflower river, which here approaches the Yazoo, 
and about half a mile N. by W. from the mound just described, is a curious plat- 
form covered with loam filled with evidence of long occupancy, averaging 8 feet in 
height except at the southern end, where the elevation is 14 feet. Its outline is 
irregularly oblong. Its basal diameter N. and S. is about 305 feet; E. and W. it 
is 245 feet, approximately. 
“Тһе composition of the mounds of the Yazoo-Sunflower region is alluvial deposit, rich in clay, 
with the addition of more or less organic matter in places. 
