CERTAIN MOUNDS ОЕ ARKANSAS AND OF MISSISSIPPI. 579 
A mingling of decayed skeletons was found 32 inches from the surface. 
Mound С, about 95 yards SE. by E. from Mound В, was a circular rise of the 
ground, 2 feet 4 inches high and 40 feet in diameter. Eleven trial-holes produced 
only negative result. 
Mound Dis in a cultivated field, about one-half mile N. by W. from Mound 
A. Its height is 5 feet; its diameter, 83 feet. Nine trial-holes exposed two skele- 
tons of adults, at full length on the back, parallel one to the other, the heads 
directed ESE. At the skull of one was an inverted vessel of inferior ware, badly 
broken, bearing an incised decoration (Fig. 2). On the other side of the head was 
part of a vessel in fragments. 
Могхрв at HOLLY MOUND LANDING AND АТ SILVER Crry, Yazoo COUNTY. 
Large rectangular mounds with summit plateaus, evidently domiciliary, were 
inspected by us at Holly Mound Landing and at Silver City, but permission to 
investigate was not forthcoming. 
MOUND NEAR SPRINGWOOD LANDING, WASHINGTON COUNTY. 
A mound near Springwood Landing was reported by our agent but was not 
visited by us as the owner was unwilling to concede the privilege of digging. 
MOUND ат BELzoNa, WASHINGTON COUNTY. 
Visible from the river bank, about one quarter mile E. by N. from the landing at 
Belzona, is a mound, 11 feet in height, on property of Mr. M. Cohn, of that place. 
This mound, whose longer sides are parallel to the river bank, which, at this 
place, is east and west, has a diameter of 165 feet by 125 feet. The summit plateau 
in the same directions, respectively, is 96 feet and 56 feet. Part of the eastern end 
of the mound has been hauled away in order to utilize the shell, a large admixture 
of which, mingled with dark loam, is present in the mound. 
Twelve trial-holes put down in the summit plateau resulted in the finding of 
two fragments of a human femur in one instance and a human os calers in another. 
Presumably these bones had been gathered with material for the construction of 
the mound. 
One trial-hole exposed six post-holes in line, about 30 inches from the surface. 
These holes were from 3.5 to 4 inches in diameter and about 2 feet in depth. Іп 
another excavation were two similar post-holes. 
No doubt an aboriginal building had once stood on a part of the mound before 
its final increase in height. 
MOUND ABOVE BELZONA, HOLMES COUNTY. 
About 1 mile above Belzona, but on the opposite side of the river, immediately 
at the water's edge, on property of Mr. М. R. Payne, of Koalunsa Landing, Miss., 
whose kindness in permitting us to dig elsewhere on the river we have had occasion 
