972 CERTAIN MOUNDS ОҒ ARKANSAS AND OF MISSISSIPPI. 
From 4 feet 4 inches to 4 feet 10 inches down (the outer parts of the layer 
sloping downward) was a stratum of shells mingled with dry, clayey material, light 
brown in color. The thickness of this layer was not determined, a hole 1 foot 8 
inches in depth not having reached the bottom. 
A selection of the shells kindly has been identified by Dr. Н. A. Pilsbry, as 
follows: Quadrula trapezoides, О. pustulosa, О. lachrymosa, О. trigona, О. ellip- 
sis, Lampsilis purpuratus, L. hydianus, L. fallaciosus, Viviparus subpurpureus, 
Pyramidula alternata—all being shells found in the Yazoo region at the present 
time. 
Sloping downward in the mound, the head being 3 feet from the surface, the 
knees, 4 feet 9 inches, was a skeleton of an adult, at full length, face downward, 
the head pointing west by north. 
The beneficial effect of the infiltration of lime salts on bones was well illus- 
trated in the case of this skeleton, which, down to the knees, was in a condition so 
friable as to fall almost into dust under slight pressure. From the knees down, 
however, the bones lay on the shell layer, of which mention has been made, and 
were hard and excellently preserved. 
The tibize showed evidence of slight periostitis. 
Under the same conditions as those of the burial just described, and interred 
in exactly the same manner, save that it headed WSW., lay another adult skeleton. 
Neither of these skeletons had artifacts of any kind in association, except a 
fragment of pottery, which was probably an accidental introduction. 
About 6 inches above the pelvis of one of the skeletons were the skull and 
some of the cervical vertebra of a child. The remainder of this skeleton, proba- 
bly little more than dust, had, no doubt, been thrown out in the digging without 
attracting attention. Around the neck were a number of shell beads. 
In quest of a cemetery, twenty-four trial-holes from 1 foot to 2.5 feet in depth, 
as the case required, were put down without result in the neighborhood of the 
mound, through black soil showing former occupancy, to undisturbed clay. 
MOUNDS NEAR Enora LANDING, Oak VALLEY LANDING, RIALTO LANDING, 
Yazoo COUNTY. 
We were unable to obtain permission to explore mounds reported by our agent 
to be in the neighborhood of Enola Landing, Oak Valley Landing, and Rialto 
Landing. 
MOUND NEAR Tarsus LANDING, Yazoo COUNTY. 
A mound near Tarsus Landing, on property of Mr. John S. Hord, of Rose- 
neath, Miss., was not visited by us, permission to dig having reached us after we 
had passed beyond the place. 
