590 CERTAIN MOUNDS OF ARKANSAS AND OF MISSISSIPPI. 
One of these, almost plowed away, was dug into by us without success. 
The third mound, well preserved, evidently domiciliary, has a height of 9 feet. 
Its basal length NNE. and SSW. is 128 feet; and 103 feet SE. by E. and NW. by 
W. Тһе diameters of the summit plateau in the same directions, respectively, are 
64 feet and 43 feet. | 
Considerable digging in this mound yielded only a small, flat mass of limestone, 
pitted on one side. 
MOUNDS AT THE MOUTH or GEORGE LAKE, YAZOO COUNTY. 
Two small mounds at the mouth of George lake, southern side, were visited 
by us but were not investigated, though permission had been given by Mrs. C. E. 
Crippen, their owner, who lives nearby. 
MOUNDS NEAR GEORGE LAKE, YAZOO COUNTY. 
About one-half mile above the union of George lake’ with the Sunflower 
river, on the southern side of the lake, on the plantation of Mr. W. A. Henry, of 
Yazoo City, Miss., to whom the Academy is especially indebted for full permission 
to investigate, is a notable group of mounds.” 
These mounds, rising here and there around a great central tumulus, stud an 
area of about forty-four acres, as determined by a recent survey, we are informed. 
Here and there pools of water mark excavations whence material for the 
mounds was taken. 
The mounds are enclosed, except on the lake-front, by an aboriginal embank- 
ment, probably from 4 to 6 feet in height, and no doubt of greater altitude in 
early times. Possibly it was then surmounted by a stockade. 
The number of mounds that surround the great central one in a rather irregu- 
lar way would be hard to determine with exactness, inasmuch as but two of the 
entire group have not been subjected to cultivation over the entire surface, and 
some, probably never of great size, are now hardly distinguishable. Presumably 
more than thirty rises of the ground and mounds small and great could be counted 
within the enclosure. 
Of all these mounds, however, but three retain any resemblance to their 
former shape, supposing them to have been other than mere conical elevations; and 
one of these three (now with a well-marked summit plateau), cultivated over its 
entire surface, its soft material exposed to wash of heavy rains, will soon be in the 
condition of most of its companions. 
The most symmetrical mounds and the only ones (except the one we have 
noted as in process of destruction) that are not of moderate height, are the great 
central mound and another about 80 yards in a southwesterly direction from it. 
The great central mound (whose sides almost exactly face the cardinal points), 
1 The reader will Pica that a *lake" in this region, is where the river formerly flowed but has 
been diverted from its 
? This land, Бк говне ақкіс; is usually beyond reach of the river, though it is covered in 
times of very high water, as was the case in the great overflow of 1882, when the inhabitants and their 
stock, from a considerable distance «оси үлты; these mounds a welcome place of refuge. 
