584 CERTAIN MOUNDS OF ARKANSAS AND OF MISSISSIPPI. 
MOUNDS NEAR TEE Heap оғ Honey ISLAND, HOLMES COUNTY. 
Near the head of the Yazoo river side of Honey island is the plantation of 
Mr. A. W. Evans, who resides on the place. The lower part of this plantation is 
known as Gold-dust. About half a mile in a NE. by E. direction from the landing 
at Gold-dust are two mounds in a cultivated field, in full view of each other, both 
much spread by cultivation. 
One, largely of sand, has a height of 4 feet 4 inches and diameters of 78 feet 
and 64 feet. 
The other mound, partly of sand, 2 feet 10 inches high, with diameters of 38 
feet and 54 feet, has, somewhat below the surface, a great deposit of musselshells, 
mostly badly crushed. Some less broken than the rest have kindly been deter- 
mined by Dr. Н. A. Pilsbry as Quadrula pyramidata, О. plicata, Lampsilis falla- 
сгоѕиѕ, all shell-fish still found in the Mississippi valley. 
MOUND NEAR SHEPPARDTOWN LANDING, LEFLORE COUNTY. 
Two mounds near Sheppardtown Landing, described by our agent as visited 
by him, were passed by us without a visit, permission to dig not having been 
obtained. 
MOUNDS NEAR SHELL BLUFF LANDING, LEFLORE COUNTY. 
There are a number of mounds near Shell Bluff Landing, on properties belong- 
ing to Messrs. W. G. Poindexter, of Sheppardtown, Miss., and F. M. Southworth, 
residing on his property at Phillipston. Although both these gentlemen gave cor- 
dial permission to investigate, we did not avail ourselves of their kindness as the 
mounds which were inspected by us so nearly resembled others in which we had 
been unsuccessful that we decided not to delay our journey. 
MOUNDS NEAR Рнпллрвтох LANDING, LEFLORE COUNTY. 
Two small mounds near Phillipston Landing, on property belonging to Mr. F. 
M. Southworth, to whose plantation at Shell Bluff Landing we have already 
referred, were not investigated by us for the same reason that those at Shell Bluff 
Landing were not dug into, though Mr. Southworth had kindly placed the Phillips- 
ton mounds at our disposal. 
MOUNDS NEAR OAKWOOD, oR RoEBUCK, LANDING, LEFLORE COUNTY. 
Two mounds near Oakwood, or Roebuck, Landing, belonging to Mr. Herman 
Aron, of New Orleans, La., were not visited by us owing to the unsatisfactory 
return from mounds in this region, though Mr. Aron had willingly given his consent 
to our work. 
MOUND NEAR Моств or YaroBusBA River, LEFLORE COUNTY. 
On property of Mr. S. J. Stein, of Greenwood, Miss., at the roadside, about 
one quarter mile NNE. from the landing, at the union of the Yalobusha, an 
